Planeswalkers and creatures have a clear flavor to them, and at best, conveying story through them is making them storytellers and not stories
I love seeing the elusive, hard-to-find, hard-to-grade, and rarely mentioned cards that people bring to vendors to sell
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card, this is the exact tier where the conversation usually starts
This can include serialization, like we see with the first two Headliners of the year in Edgar Markov and The Aetherspark
Since this mechanic creates two fronts, one way to go is to make it highly strategic, like a war simulation game or even chess