and finally, we'll look at a comparable card printed in the last few years to see just how far creatures have come over the past three decades
As with Timmy/Tammy and Johnny/Jenny, Spikes come in a variety of flavors based on how they want to prove their ability - Innovators often have Johnny/Jenny sensibilities, in that their focus is on understanding how the game works at its core and demonstrating that mastery by being the first to come up with new decks, tactics, and advancements in play concepts
If you do, you'll pay only the colored mana component of the emerge cost
And at this point, you should have a fairly good idea of how to play, what decks work and why, and even be contemplating maybe getting yourself one of those unbelievably annoying Lost Zone decks, so you too can spend hours faffing with Comfey, Cramorant and Giratina while your opponent slowly dies of old age