I still to this day have books from that period where Im listing out Magic decks I want to make, or Im working on my own ideas for trading card games. A Warhammer 40K trading card game that Miller co-designed in 2001 with Luke Peterschmidt has roots in that era
7 Amethyst Steel Burn Melt Through Your Deck As the name suggests, this deck is all about burning through your deck to accelerate your game and gain a ton of lore in the process
The fact the Red players were maindecking several copies of Magebane Lizard - which should definitely be a sideboard card - just to fight off Prowess shows just how warped the Standard MTG format has become
Akela Forest Runner is a very interesting character
That film is the truly unique science fiction film Treasure Planet, an adaptation of the classic Treasure Island story, transplanting the story into the distant future
My point is, you cannot put a value on how you get to events and how you spend your time, if you do well at the events you can also make up these costs as well, but they all require you to be finishing at above average and have a really solid day 2 in side events as well