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Maybe it betrays existence

For how much Garfield and Magics other core designers didnt yet understand about the future of the game, the reasoning for this was simple, and showed a tremendous amount of foresight: adding more and more cards to a single card pool would, in Garfields own words, collapse the game into complexity and would strongarm players into buying cards they might not want. Hmm

They get far better with ramp spells like Nature's Lore, Explosive Vegetation, and Harrow that many green decks play anyway

The rule box Pokmon for the current generation are called Pokmon V, mimicking the Dynamax mechanic from the Sword and Shield games