This TCG is one that can be fun to collect and play in equal measure if youre a fan of some of the series within it, owing to the novelty that you can build a deck thats a dream team of your favourite heroes and villains
Mutating a creature onto Ivy turns it into a token copy, giving you all sorts of potential for shenanigans, especially if you play a few copy spells and choose to make Ivy nonlengendary by placing the mutate creature on top of Ivy
Later Magic sets (such as Vintage Masters seen in the Force of Will example above), have both the collectors number , set code , and rarity in the lower lefthand corner of the card
Sure, I get it, theres artifact payoffs in the set, but the impact this has on the board will be pretty meaningless about 99% of the time, and the times where it gives you an actual card worth of value will be even rarer
Many vatkeepers use necrogen etchings to judge the value of their aspirants
The Mew name keeps a floor under it