A Ghostly Prison and other stax cards are very troublesome for attackers, because they have to scratch and claw their way just to arrive at your wall
Understanding this history adds real depth to a collectors knowledge, since it explains why very early cards sometimes look inconsistent compared to the clean, standardized system used in every modern set today
Windfall | Illustration by Scott Murphy A wheel in Magic is shorthand for an effect that makes some number of players discard their hands and draw a new hand, often seven cards
OP-03 introduced Yellow as a playable color, gave us four iconic WANTED poster SP cards, and features one of the rarest comic parallel cards in the entire game
Maralen needs a wide board, which means strong token generators like Alela are in high demand
Mostly, it is for collectibility reasons that certain Magic: The Gathering cards can become so expensive