Just in time for fall, Magics next horror-themed Standard set is almost here
Spending energy on them is a "may" ability, and while it doesn't come up super often, we'll sometimes cast a Harnessed Lightning and choose to have it deal zero damage, just to gain three energy to spend protecting Bristling Hydra or making Thopters with Whirler Virtuoso
It looks like a Dimir proliferate deck is being hand-delivered for some format, and Mono-Black decks arent going anywhere in all their relevant formats
Chris Mooney and Ari Zirulnik assembled lists of characters from every game and split them up into tiers of mandatory, suggested, possible, and backup
We can see a variation of this card where it probably required player damage to trigger the ability, and came with a sneak cost