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Grist, the Hunger Tide is a three-mana Black and Green planeswalker that can do a bit of self-mill and make Insect tokens, sacrifice creatures to destroy creatures or planeswalkers, or drain the life from your enemies based on the number of creatures in your graveyard

Generally, it's not simply because they're the best MTG cards

Black and White is all about recursion

Many modern Commander pre-con decks try to build around two core mechanics , and Quandrix Unlimited uses the aforementioned X-cost spells but also +1/+1 counters

Life gain is a beloved kitchen table archetype too

Buying enough packs to get wildcards to craft the current meta's best decks alone can be pricey, and that's ignoring access to drafting events, Mastery Passes, cosmetics and the like