This is the mana value you will check against
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You could also play tuck effects like Chaos Warp or Unexpectedly Absent
Turning the targets into treasures is certainly a drawback since it gives players the option to turn their useless card into mana, but ironically players will often crack their treasure and lose the opportunity to get their card back when Kitesail Larcenist leaves the battlefield
A one mana 1/1 with Haste might feel reasonable on turn one, but it is pretty terrible thereafter, and adding the ability to ping things that block it doesnt really make up for that, though it does help some, since it means that it can at least trade with X/2s, and X/1s effectively cant block it