Summary Shift powerful characters early with ease using cards like Gramma Tala or Peter Pan in Into The Inklands
These made sense from two angles: First, these were top-down Egyptian-inspired sets, and d4s look suspiciously like those pointy triangle things everyone associates with Egypt
By going wide with Pirates, you can have a surge of lore that, if not outright win you the game, will have enough of an impact to make it almost impossible for your opponent to catch up
This can allow you the ability to quest without too much concern
Falling into the Ruby ink type, Aladdin - Heroic Outlaw has a high summoning cost of 7 ink, but, like some other cards, has the "Shift" trait, so it can be played on top of an already-in-play Aladdin card for only 5 ink
Gysahl greens will not improve your odds of opening a serialized card