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Were there any close runner-ups you considered

If youre playing purely starter decks, this one from Shimmering Skies is a good choice and can win consistently

Its a very versatile spell that will probably see some amount of play

In addition, I had just read Ramadan (Sandman #50), which is set in the Arabian Nights mythos, so I took that as a sign

Flash forward to 2024, and we finally have an Iron Man card in MTG

This is an extremely strong card draw effect, but it comes at an increasingly severe cost to the player's life total -- fitting for an artifact imbued with Sauron's dark magic that slowly but surely corrupts its wearer