From that, you can pretty plainly see the strategy of this deck: swarm the battlefield with lots of creatures, and augment them with +1/+1 counters
T: 65 ($60-$120)
If everyone else gets sent back to the dark ages from a Wrath of God and you keep your whole board, you'll be miles ahead
Doomskar Titan Doomskar Titan is a solid finisher within Aggro and go-wide builds, utilizing Foretell to split its expensive casting cost while pumping the team with plus-one and Haste
My following comments are speculation, but: The card designs could have been approved around the same time period as the first wave of 1996 cards, the contract could have enforced the release date of 1997 to stagger product hitting the market, the contract could have stipulated mew was to be withheld until approved, or indefinitely, or permission triggered by some other event such as a sales target
Wizards of the Coast produced Jyhad (now called Vampire: The Eternal Struggle ), a game about modern-day vampires