According to Heritage Auctions, the Blastoise card was created by Wizards of the Coast, the original publisher behind the Pokmon TCG, as a presentation piece designed to convince Nintendo of Japan executives that the trading card game was worth being produced in English before its international debut in 1999
Through this lens, the MTG 2023 Starter Kit is once again rather meh, however, again, thats not the end of the world
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Extended Art copies have been all but bought out, and now new near-mint listings start at $4.99
The design is super-archaic
All this changed though when Millstone came out in Antiquities