The larger library will be a restriction, but two extra turns is sometimes all you need to do significant damage to your opponents or take over the game
Im hoping that being a Rare rather than a Mythic helps keep this card at a reasonable price for a while after release
Jackal, Genius Geneticist The low casting cost on Jackal, Genius Geneticist makes for an especially interesting deck build in which you want creatures of different power and several ways to adjust the number of counters on Jackal

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But initiative isnt an emblem and can be taken by players whose creatures deal combat damage to the player that currently has initiative, or by playing a card that takes initiative
However, up until very recently, we've been pretty much in the dark about the set, save for a few pretty pieces of key art