It affects: How a deck feels when you shuffle, cut, and fan it out on the table How long your cards last before edges start to fuzz How easy it is to spot marked or warped cards in a high-stakes game How easy it is for judges and players to trust that a deck of real cards behaves as it should When Wizards chooses stock, coatings, and printers, theyre balancing print quality, manufacturing cost, and how the cards hold up in the real world
It is also cheaper so you can put it to use earlier
Cards that exile your graveyard once, like Relic of Progenitus or Tormod's Crypt, can be problematic
From a rules perspective, commander damage can only be done in combat, so this isn't a sneaky implement of destruction
Collectors have responded with sustained, aggressive demand that has kept the card's value at a premium level well above what a typical Secret Rare from the same era commands
The lightest card weighed was 1.67 g