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Really, having great energy-generating creatures like Whirler Virtuoso or Roil Cartographer in your starting hand along with three Plains feels like cruel punishment from the Magic gods

As we saw before, their HP hasnt changed much at all since the Black & White era

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WotC is still theoretically running the 'once a year' plan - but we have also had some of those 'emergency bans' pop up since the firm adopted it

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