At the time, fans believed that the card was one of the rarest TCG collectibles to have ever been created
Youd much prefer to have a Doom Blade, which answers a creature that the opponent has already spent mana on, or youd prefer to have your own creature, which will help you under any circumstances
This change isnt huge, but it could easily be the difference between a manabase that plays out smoothly andconsistently and one that doesnt, and remember that, on top of making our colored mana work better, were also just drawing fetchlands more often, meaning we get to take more advantage of all the fringe benefits of fetchlands
The problem with splitting them evenly is that, unless you opened the right kinds of spells and lands, you risk not drawing the right mixand then being unable to cast anything
[1] If this card is Special Summoned: You can negate the effects of all face-up monsters your opponent controls
Much like the Klinklang example, Garbodor decks dont necessarily have to get the lock going ASAP
