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It incentivizes your opponents to beat each other up while still offering you the same level of card draw

[27] Dave Smith of IGN opined that Lulu's outfit was a positive outgrowth of Nomura's penchant for overdressed characters, and that her design, with highlights such as "[a] floor-length skirt, elaborately pinned hair, and [a] collection of super-cute mascot dolls", was one of the "coolest" in the franchise

That is an additional 5-7 ink of value you get FOR FREE when you play this Jim Hawkins

For better or worse, this new reprint is unlikely to lower this price by any significant amount

Dark Ritual allows you to take advantage of drawing multiple cards a turn back during the black summer of Magic , it wasn't unusual to see a player drawing 4-5 cards a turn every turn of the game using Necropotence to fuel their crazed game of "holy cow, is this for real?" No other card in Magic has allowed a player to draw so many cards turn after turn so cheaply

In Play boosters, a Through the Ages card can replace one of the commons