Whereas all the Japanese cards feature holofoil borders, only English cards from the Scarlet & Violet era have them -- matching how the cards were originally printed in English
I now run 32 lands because over the course of a year I found myself missing the mana I needed just a bit too often
One effective way to end games is to combine Berta, Inexorable Tide, and Shrieking Drake to build up infinite Storm count
Playing a creature face-down always costs three, so disguised creatures with high casting costs usually require a lot of extra mana to turn face up
God-Eternal Rhonas didnt make the cut because I dont respect it, and Ilharg, the Raze-Boar is a pig and only a God-Eternal in spirit anyway
Eventually, collectors and the advent of opaque gaming sleeves brought Alpha cards back in front value-wise