If Echo stayed tied to the permanents mana cost, its design space would have stagnated, and we likely never would have seen it come back
A tremendously powerful card with four strong chapters, this card can easily win the game for you on its own, especially in Commander if youre running a dedicated colorless build thats full of high-mana colorless bombs like Ugin, the Spirit DragonUgin, the Spirit Dragon or Eldrazi Titans
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Geometric Nexus Geometric Nexus scales well since it counts spells cast by all players, but the costs are still too high
While the front side is good enough to see play on its own, the fact that it only has four defense counters makes it relatively easy to flip (a single Sheoldred, the Apocalypse attack gets the job done), and the backside offers a very powerful creature that can defeat a battle or kill a planeswalker each turn while potentially generating card advantage as well
