After tossing around ideas for a game called RoboRally with visiting mathematics professor Richard Garfield, it was decided that production costs would be too expensive and WotC asked Garfield if he had any other ideas up his sleeve
It's still asking a lot: This creature has to attack, you need to have other modified creatures to attack with, and the Trainer has to be modified in some way to make this all matter
He has been featured on more than 600 cards over the years, and even did the artwork for the original Base Set Charizard, making him a legend in the trading card universe
Can compensate for elements lacking in Exosister Originally, the concept was to raise the deck's base power without relying on the metagame, so some might say it's meaningless if you can't do this, but in any case, the deck's specs are one level higher than before
However, in exchange for these qualities, they also have lower health
Cards that are sent to the Lost Zone don't get the benefit that the discard pile offers, namely the chance to return through all sorts of spiffy future-turn tactics
