And in a hobby like the TCG, where price speculation has always been present, it is understandable that some cards have a higher value than others
That means if you play a 6/6 dragon with some absurd ability, you then have two copies of that dragon until the end of the turn
This means that drafting a monocolor deck in a Shadowmoor draft was likely the easiest in the history of Magic , and one of only a handful where you could reliably build a monocolor deck in the Sealed Deck format
Way back when, 20 years ago, before sleeves, toploaders, and binders to secure my collection of cards from the Pokmon TCG , I was like any other kid
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Making things that bit more complicated are Magic: The Gatherings cards themselves, which will often have very specific timing windows attached to their abilities - and can even break the standard rules and turn structure of the game at points