Its not uncommon for Amethyst decks to run four copies of draw cards such as Friends on the Other Side, Merlin Rabbit, Maleficent Sorceress, and/or Ursula Power Hungry, so it wouldn't be hard to rack up several Lore in a flash
#7 RE: first edition shadow This should help you
Red is no stranger to rituals and even some treasure generation
Traditionally vanilla creatures with a bad mana-to-power/toughness ratio, wurms could never really take off as their own supported creature type
Each booster pack contains just five cards - reduced from the 10 you get in real-world Pokmon boosters, in part because there are no energy cards to pad things out here
Its also another redundancy piece for decks running combos around cards like Arcbond, which is nice