As opposed to a more typical prison deck, pillowfort cards wont interfere with opponents directly, so its easy to misjudge the seriousness of the threat until suddenly interaction becomes impossible
This is the kind of power that beats any recursion, and that makes it rather rare in MTG and, as a result, well worth considering
Mana burn was a mechanic that existed around this time where you would take damage if you had unused mana in your mana pool that wasn't simply just your untapped lands
- 10 double-sided tokens in 3 of the decks
If I control 20 dorks, then I should have already won the game by attacking
the Blue Boon, Ancestral Recall, was considered the strongest, and was the only card in the cycle printed as a Rare