If you want to convert this "cost" into a benefit, combine it with a creature that rewards you for tapping it or untapping it afterward
In other games you could jump out to 30, 40 or even more life
It wouldn't have been right otherwise, only giving Dialga all the play and nothing for Palkia
Card Draw Another challenge of Standard mill is that it takes a lot of mill spells to actually get our opponent's library all the way empty (especially if we don't happen to draw Drowned Secrets to speed up the process)
Some things are richly detail like the mosaic in the bottom left to the hand grasping the building, yet the weather elements are quickly done additional brushstrokes here and there to keep you from staring at the whole picture and instead laser point your focus at four things: the foreground demon, the scale birds, the Lazotep building on the left, and the jackal demon
With the Tyranid deck revealed, we're now awaiting the Ruinous Powers deck, and then the Necrons and the Forces of the Imperium