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Theres something cool about generating large black Zombie Warrior tokens in a mono-white deck, but practically speaking, its nice to be able to diversify your colors in case a creature attacking you has protection from white (granted by Sword of Hearth and Home, for instance)

Special Illustration Rares are usually valuable, as they have gorgeous artwork and low pull rates

It also ensures youre curving out and playing an Energy every turn, to at the very least keep up with an opponent who is doing the same thing

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It comes out faster, requires fewer up-front resources, and consistently provides mana for the rest of the game (assuming it isnt removed or something)

Hopefully we see a few less next year, too