In a State of the Format update posted on January 27, judge and RC member Jim Lapagne writes that the deluge of new cards "has led to a pretty drastic change in player behavior." With 2,000 new Magic cards arriving in 2023, and even more the previous year, the RC deems it now "nearly impossible" to "maintain an encyclopedic knowledge of every new card", or to keep track of common strategies for the several hundreds of MTG Commanders released each year
Inalla must be on the battlefield or in the command zone as the trigger event for its eminence ability occurs and also as the triggered ability resolves
The spells you cast this way are cast from outside the game
Paldean Fates benefits from being a special set with a smaller card pool, making its SIRs harder to pull
This number has gone up massively in recent years, partly because Magic has started to produce more and more products in recent years, but also because of a pretty big uptick in special collaboration sets like Universes Beyond: The Lord of the Rings Tales From Middle-earth and the Universes Beyond: Doctor Who sets
Let me introduce you to the leave the graveyard payoffs, cards that reward you with different advantages when you move cards from your graveyard to other zones