Factor in over 30 years to open this much smaller supply of Alpha packs, and you now have a product thats almost impossible to even find in the wild
You could easily achieve this with fetchlands
You could often even use it multiple times during one game
Gideon does have moments where he charges into battle without proper planning, but none of them ever cause harm to him or anyone else, and its unclear whether he couldve been harmed in the first place
All the Transformers cards that can be opened are double-faced legendary creature/artifact (robot/vehicle) cards, and they all have an alternate More Than Meets the Eye cost, which allows you to cast the back side of the card (from any legal zone) instead of the usual front side
Michael Hinderaker Michael came in as the play design expert, a role which he kept through set design