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If the opponent is a legal target but the creature isn't, the opponent will reveal their hand and you may exile a nonland card from it

As for the main set, one of the main new mechanics was saga creatures

I'll get into how those ideas were expanded upon in part three of this series

To balance out creatures becoming more powerful, MTG has also introduced more effective removal spells over the years, like destroy spells, abilities to give creatures -X/-X counters, and the most powerful of all: Exile

As I explained in my preview column on Boros, the battalion mechanic was designed by Shawn Main during Great Designer Search 2