The fact that its shiny and gold is just gravy
I know that the Mythics are all pretty exciting, and I spoke about that earlier so don't think I'm ignoring them, but you don't need me to point out Akroma's Memorial or cards without casting costs are incredibly powerful
For example, if you attack with a 4/6 Wizard with trample and it's blocked by a 1/1 creature, you can assign 1 damage to the blocker and 3 damage to the defending player
I don't know, but either way I suspect Starting Town will find its way into a many multicolored decks for its versatility
New world order In one of his articles, Mark Rosewater introduced us to the New World Order in their design process: They would make sure that the common cards as they are the cards that new players will have the most contact with will never be overly complex: They should be easy to understand and easy to play with, so as these players become more interested and start buying more packs, they will gradually start having contact with rarer, and more complex cards, making the learning curve less steep
Many of the card names featuring fictional fantasy terms - think Erhnam Djinn, Ifh-Bff Efreet, Mijae Djinn - come directly from Garfield and are references to his friends and loved ones
