That's Abeyance in a nutshell: great for letting you get your own combos off while getting you through your deck, not so good when your opponent can still cast Viashino Sandstalker and attack you that turn
Decks With This Card Recent public and tournament decks using Ice Doll Mirror
This is often what makes people think that magic players at the time had no idea how good card advantage was
The additional beginning phase all happens during the current turn
When attached to a Pokmon, its attacks deal an extra 50 HP of damage to the opponents Active Pokmon ex
Sanderson also noted that he wrote back and said yes absolutely, gimme gimme gimme!, maybe a little more professional, then I didnt hear back from them. By Sandersons own admission this isnt unusual, as Wizards is a very big company. He also theorized that Wizards may have reached out to a bunch of people, including some very large IPs, which may explain the radio silence
