While giving your opponent a City of Brass might sound like a bad idea, it's actually a great trade when you consider that the alternative is being beaten to death by a Celestial Colonnade or your opponent casting a Karn Liberated on Turn 3 with the help of Tron
Hans, Run! ended up inspiring card versions of both Saffi Eriksdotter and Hans Eriksson, the named characters in that text, even though it took us 25 years to finally see Hans printed
As I have pointed out earlier in the blog, there is a downside to playing this style as it can leave you open to attacks
It worked so well in conjunction with Card not found and it was so good against the very prevalent control decks that it shut out other draw cards pretty well, although even those decks would sometimes add one Card not found or Card not found, because more cards is always more cards
Patrick Stewart feels like a lock
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