The bar of playability is much lower for a card that can work in a tribal deck (see: Cursecatcher in Modern and Mist-Cloak Herald in Standard), so the floor for Mistcaller is that it ends up a good option for Merfolk tribal decks
If a creature with a survival ability isn't tapped when your second main phase begins, the ability won't trigger at all
Flare of Duplication is neither of those, but the most common use case for this is to sacrifice your creature thats being targeted while creating a copy of the spell to aim at the original casters creature as a gotcha moment
While colloquially, Alt/Alternate Art is widely understood as a descript for these types of cards, it can be confused by the official use of Alternate Art which is used for a card that has been reprinted with different art, often used as a Promo (Previously given the symbol as a distinction) Alakazam ex | Alakazam ex Alternate Art Promo alt art858599 91.7 KB Because there was no official rarity yet, the AA or SA would be added as a suffix at the end of the existing rarity when describing a card if applicable
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While The Soul Stone will be strong on its own, this artifact plays especially well with Toph