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Shrink wrap air holes, box perforations, and JAN codes are your primary defenses against resealed products
The art is still fantastic, make no mistake, but it's also very unlike how we expect Squall's weapon to appear, per se
Friendship truly is magic, but this isn't Equestria
Izzet Fling (0.7% of the Winner's Metagame) 4 Callous Sell-Sword 4 Elusive Otter 4 Slickshot Show-Off 4 Stormchaser's Talent 4 Spirebluff Canal 4 Starting Town 4 Steam Vents 4 Ancestral Anger 4 Wild Ride 4 Sleight of Hand 3 Multiversal Passage 3 Riverpyre Verge 2 Full Bore 2 Shore Up 2 Drake Hatcher 2 Opt 2 Secret Identity 2 Turn Inside Out 1 Mountain 1 Balmor, Battlemage Captain 3 Spell Pierce 2 Into the Flood Maw 2 Secret Identity 2 Soul-Guide Lantern 2 Octopus Form 1 Burst Lightning 1 Dreadmaw's Ire 1 Island 1 Pyroclasm Izzet Fling, the final deck in this Standard metagame overview, can win games out of nowhere by launching oversized creatures directly at the opponent
Six mana for a 5/5 was a decent rate for the era, and protection from white was extremely relevant