Notable Reprints Blight Curse doesnt hold back on reprints either: Fire Covenant for efficient removal Necroskitter , which is absolutely perfect in a -1/-1 counter deck Black Suns Zenith for scalable board control Evolution Sage for proliferate synergies Flourishing Defenses for token generation Massacre Girl, Known Killer , giving all creatures wither Which Lorwyn Eclipsed precon is better
In 40-life formats like Commander, that's quite the fast early game boost
If the rares take off, individual boosters in those colors might be hard to grab individually, and the underwhelming white packs might be all thats left at the LGS that sells boosters on their own
That turns every creature with an ETB effect into repeatable value
By late 1996, the first year of the Pro Tour, a new perspective on red was formed, thanks to Jay Schneiders Sligh deck
Then you put down fetch land like Terramorphic Expanse