But let me ask you this: If I ramp out Rafiq on turn 3 and your turn-3 play is Helga, Skittish Seer, who do you thinks going to win that game
The Extra Battle Day event was planned to be repeated in early 2020, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an even higher rarity
The whole idea is that you get a big scary creature into the graveyard, and then you bring it back with a cheap spell, getting a significant discount and ideally riding that creature to victory
But the Whelp is one of a handful of Laccolith buddies from Nemesis that I always felt sort of enabled the creature control of that set
While the cards exiled stay exiled, this generally doesn't matter when you can cheat out a game-ending permanent
There's also a lot of classic Amethyst bounce back, ensuring your characters that are banished in challenges return to your hand, meaning you're hopefully never short on a supply of characters to get onto the board