At least until they started to give us one mana options like the contemporary Duress, Thoughtseize, or Inquisition of Kozilek
If I want a location that provides some card advantage, I'd rather just play The Queen's Castle - Mirror Chamber and move characters there for 1 ink cheaper and get 1 extra passive lore to boot
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But at the same time, if we banned every lock card tomorrow, the game would almost certainly be worse off swamped by aggressive brute force combo decks abusing the most uninteractive, explosive lines beyond the ability of any fair deck to react
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