It turns everyone else's turn into your turn too, effectively quadrupling your mana in a four-player game
Tyranitar V Battle Styles #155/163 on eBay Dragonite V Evolving Skies #193/203 Somehow asleep mid-flight with its wings folded in, Dragonite is suspended in soft blues and warm light that makes the whole card feel dreamlike
In practical terms, it's not really necessary for a color to be represented in a given format all that much - especially in older formats from when design was more primitive - but the idea is that it doesn't make any sense for a given color (or set of colors) to be consistently better than the others because you're just marginalizing a certain style of player for no real reason
Laelia, the Blade Reforged Laelia, the Blade Reforged went completely under most players' radars for a while
A looser version of this is separating cards into tiers: bulk (commons and uncommons you dont care about), collection (cards youre keeping), and if youre grading, grading candidates (cards in good enough condition to potentially submit)
February 1st, 2007