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THE DARK ART OF OPTIMAL RESOURCE EFFICIENCY The fundamental logic for building around discard effects is similar to that of sacrifice you take something normally considered a drawback by the designers and then try to flip into either a neutral or even positive exchange

Finding individual cards is extremely difficult, though occasional sealed packs surface for $700800 eachoften the safest way to secure high-grade copies

The Set Booster always gives you one standard rare or mythic rare from the main set, so any rare or mythic rare in the wildcard slot is just extra goodness

All but Lord of the Pit and Mind Twist are on the Reserved List

Four mana for a card that does nothing on its own is also too high of an investment for a competitive format

But for those looking for condensed advice: the ingredients of truly fierce competitive decks are infinite combo pieces, tutors to find them quickly, resource acceleration (mana rocks) to cast all those cards faster, and cheap interaction to stop opposing combos developing