The article includes an image with old versions of Royal Assassin making it pretty intuitive that they're tap symbols: Cascabel 27k3 gold badges88 silver badges137 bronze badges answered Nov 13, 2012 at 20:47 rahzark 2,48621 silver badges23 bronze badges 2 You must log in to answer this question
Magic was a much, much smaller game, rather than the behemoth it is today
This is another way to identify a card, and can also clue you in to some special, often valuable cards: [7] Secret rares have a collector number higher than the total # of cards (supposedly) printed in that set, for instance "65/64" or "110/105." Secret rares can range anywhere from a couple of dollars to hundreds of dollars
You can also tap them to crew powerful vehicles and get in with those instead
This one mana creature makes a Treasure token anytime it connects with a player, while also exiling the top card of their library
I came so close to winning one of these back in the day and never got a chance to trade for one, and now its quite pricey