One player recently worked out it could take almost two years of daily play to collect every card in the set, though thankfully hitting the 150 necessary for Mew will require considerably less time
Alaynas description of the process involved with the middle three lands made me immediately think of the famous Sherlock Holmes quote about horses: Dangerous on both ends, and crafty in the middle. How many times, in both Commander deck-building and gameplay, do we know what to expect at both the beginning and the end, yet its the questions in the middle that seem to be the most intensive
It was created as a prize for a 1998 CoroCoro illustration contest, with only around 39 copies ever distributed, and the graded example that sold is the only known PSA 10 in existence
How often are you not able to counter an important spell because you don't have the mana you need open (or in the right combination of colors)
As you might have guessed, these preview cards all fit well into a deck full of Sliver Creatures, but some of them also have cool uses elsewhere as well