Unfortunately, in the TCG, Ken Sugimori's cards are seen as quite lazy, as they are the TCG's way of making quick filler
The Myriad Pools can offer some mana ramp and utility, but you need a lot of permanents in your deck for this to flip
Its believed that these no number cards were the very first printing and the error was later corrected for the release of all 150 blue backs, with the green backs being printed after
So as painful as it felt to spend a card killing these elementals post-ETB, leaving them alive gave your opponent a huge opportunity to get even further ahead
1 Like stagecoach June 21, 2022, 11:18am 10 This is only tangentially related, but how come so many images from Japan are such low resolution
If youre predominantly running bursty draw or looting in a graveyard-based Rakdos deck, for example, it still might be correct to run cards like Nights Whisper, Dark Bargain or Ambitions Cost if you arent already