It lets you practise against Magic: The Gathering Arenas AI without having to worry about real-life players destroying you with fancy decks
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In any set that didn't have the Shiny Charizard VMAX, this would've been the chase card of the set
The Creative team said they weren't staffed to create two planes in a single year (something we're equipped to handle now), so they suggested a story where something happened that was so impactful that it would allow for the complete shift in Zendikar's mechanics
In Standard and Limited, non-games come primarily from natural variance in the mana base, where sometimes you draw a hand with all lands (or no lands), repeat the process for a couple of mulligans, end up with a not-that-functional five cards, and know from the start of the game that you are extremely unlikely to win
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