I cant pay a thousand dollars just for a playset of a card I need. Between Spokane and Coeur dAlene, One Piece players can find a card shop holding a tournament nearly every night of the week
Before you know it, youll have a boatload of mana to work with
Were already seeing Zendikar Rising experiment with using different card types as the front side of these, which will affect deck-building and combo options across various formats (the front side determines how you can search for or target these cards when they arent in play)
Mutants Prey: I think its just too hard to know you can make it work to take it early, but I could be wrong
At common, we only included a handful of typal cards, and they all had a threshold of one, meaning that to optimize them, you only had to have one creature of that type on the battlefield
In general, I would look at these two factors when looking to include cards not of your tribe's creature type: Is this creature so strong that it, on its own, is generally stronger than my tribal creatures when they are receiving bonuses and/or empowering my other cards