Best for collectors who want top resale value and global recognition
Built from the rules and card pool of the lucrative trading card game designed by Richard Garfield, Arena is a like-for-like digital version of the game we all know, albeit wrapped in fancy graphics and voice acting with animated card effects, single-player campaigns and oodles and oodles of content
So no doubt the debate will rage on for months about what is and isnt included in the set and all we can do is wait patiently and prepare, because if you havent already set yourself up with those Reserved List Eternal staples then pretty soon theyre going to be gone the way of the Dodo
Nice card flow over time, and it costs one fewer to cast
Chaos Wand (a quarter to $2) This doesnt have as much EDHREC play at just under 10,000 decks, but theres not a lot of foils from Magic 2019 out there either
For most formats, there's not much public information available on the individuals who make these decisions, but we do know that MTG's Play Design team has some say in what cards are banned
