But also a game that someone who's never played a game like this before can pick it up, understand the concepts, and then get drawn in by the characters." Considering how difficult it can be to get your head around Magic or Pokemon these days (there's a reason Magic's head designer noted in an old blog that the company has spent "almost 30 years trying to make a product where people can teach themselves, and its turned out to be really, really hard"), that accessibility is overdue
They also allow you to have multiple copies of a card to prevent re-sleeving so many darn times
When youre playing such a fast and aggressive deck, holding a four-mana do-nothing is actually a lot of opportunity cost when it could have been another threat, letting you curve out
And lets not forget the dreaded land + Sol Ring + mana rock start
This is the kind of upside that you build a big ramp effort for just to play as quickly as you can
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