#ps cleave isn't kicker cleave is split cards or mdfcs

[fnord888]

I mean, I wasn't literally claiming that spree is least "kicker" mechanic it's possible for someone to memeingly call kicker. If someone, somewhere claims "Adventures are just kicker because you can pay additional mana for an additional effect" I'm not going to stand here and say adventures are more like kicker than spree is.

But the point is, while some mechanics, like bargain, really are just kicker in the sense that you could cleanly replace them with just kicker*, spree really isn't. Even though you technically could implement it with kicker, you'd need to do add stuff like "CARDNAME must be kicked at least once" (because, as I noted, it's not optional).

*Which is, to be clear, not a criticism of the decision to keyword them separately.

so did wizards just like. flat run out of new mechanics or like. what's going on with thunder junction and all the keywords being reheated lasagna.