That vignette effect helped to expand the graphical field of the card, without distracting from the necessary text on the bottom half
It's not necessary (or, in some cases, possible) to identify which roll was the third
With so many MTG Commanders or Commander cards producing tokens, this guy slots into thousands of different decks
When control decks are running Jitte simply to answer the aggressive decks Jitte (different, and worse, legend rulings at the time) you have a problem
It was run-of-the-mill, to be frank, and only as the game has gone along have we picked up things such as sentient machines, eldritch monstrosities and now even fairy tales, Norse myths and a plethora of other genres of fantasy
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