This markup is often too insurmountable a downside to overcome for decks that want to reuse their permanents, but our commander is Vivi OrnitierVivi Ornitier , an extremely cheap creature that makes a frankly broken amount of mana the instant he comes down
Collector Boosters are the best way to collect variant rares and mythic rares, as well as traditional foil cards, and they're the only place to collect foil-etched and extended-art cards
As design philosophy has changed and they have added more value to cards (including lands), card advantage has become less of a constraint, and being constrained as mana has become the games core constraint
Sephara and Angelic Guardian are worth more than many of the Starter Kit decks in their entirety
However, some of the rules structures are clumsy and make it overly complicated
Final Fantasy's Absolute Virtue gives you protection from all opponents