The downside is a card thats hard to use early in the game, but thats a minor drawback compared to the upside on offer
I think Richard Garfield wrote that as the Twelfth Commandment of Card Design
There are also promo cards available at weekly play, Challenge events, conventions, from Disney movies at cinemas, and more
step two: counter target spell
One thing to note is that for these drops, we arent expecting reprints of the cards after this for a while
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