"The flavor is fun, but a shield counter seems too good to give away for free." That didn't stop 1,137 players from building the deck, so perhaps I overvalued shield counters
As we playtested Jace, a few things became obvious
At the time, these Creature types were largely created for flavor purposes
Now, MTG players need the right deck for this incredible card in formats like casual "kitchen table" MTG and the increasingly popular Commander format
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I believe it was a tweet that has since been lost to entropy where I read something like, there are more words written on the accompanying tokens and rules text describing the mechanics than on the card itself. Tales of Middle Earth then introduced the Initiatives doppelgnger, The Ring Tempts You, which also required a supplementary flowchart of a token
