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In a bizarre move, Magic: The Gathering players are in the middle of a preconstructed Commander deck drought

While I was not playing when it came out, I did have a Mirage themed calendar which featured alternative and unused card art

That makes Recoil one of those cards that has a hard time being bad until the point when your opponent has extra lands they can hold in their hand in order to discard them, at which point most decks that run Recoil are either using that as an excuse to crank up the discard engine or more likely happy enough to have survived this long that they don't care

Business Insider reported in 2018 that the game counts more than 35 million players spread across 70 countries who participate in international tournaments and digital competitions

Decks that want to play counters are almost always control decks, and control decks would much prefer to gain life rather than cause opponents to lose life, so all things being equal they would have preferred to play with Absorb but there were other considerations that forced most of them down the black road instead

And so eventually, Gavin was like, I think I found the perfect spot on the bonus sheet and then it could be Smugglers Copter