Set-specific showcase frames and strong unifying aesthetic choices like we see here are the antidote to that
You want to choose the best cards and avoid the worst ones, obviously
For those people who werent playing the game back then, Junk is what we called Abzan before Khans of Tarkir made Abzan a thing
For your connection to Pokemon Trading Card Game Online, your data packets will usually travel across multiple 'hops' to get from your computer to the server
Its easy to set it up, so you can copy spells without actually resolving the original spell, giving you as many spells as you have the mana to cast them with
Furthermore, there are some situations where you dont want to trigger Prized Amalgam, for instance if you want to play around Anger of the Gods or any other sweeper and you have Silversmote Ghoul/another Amalgam triggered to return in your end step