This practice has the small benefit of helping you learn what cards to watch out for at your local Prerelease and Release events

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It has a few "you don't get to play" cards as well which never go down well
Be sure to load up on pingers like Firebrand Archer and Sanctum of Stone Fangs to hit all your opponents at once so your creatures enter with three +1/+1 counters
(When this equipment enters create a colorless 1/1 Hero creature token and attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and is a Knight in addition to it's other types
Each is common, splashable, and fetches out a land for the battlefield tapped