Being able to pay three mana to cast anything from the graveyard for a turn essentially translates to drawing a huge number of cards at a very low cost, but without the randomness that comes with actually drawing the cards
They cant be challenged You play actions and songs immediately by paying their ink cost, then discard them You can sing a song for free by exerting a character with dried ink that meets the song text ink cost At the start of your turn you ready all of your ink, characters, and items The first player to gain 20 Lore wins immediately
Discard already suffers from doing nothing on an empty hand, the fact that Duress can still do little on a full hand means you have to be quite careful how you build with Duress and where
It just highlights one of the many design flaws in this era
Clive, Ifrit's Dominant is one of many transforming cards in the set
The Collector Editions are an all-foil premium edition of the regular editions, with a special foiling process called surge foils
