FINAL FANTASY XIII I think the one thing I did in the set that consistently raised more eyebrows than any other aspect was doing a single meld pair: Fang and Vanille
It felt tough to cut down, but only in the sense that it was challenging to figure out the best way to increase the power level with the card choices available
A future design team would try to solve the same problem and came up with a more elegant solution, tying the ability, what we called saddle, to the crew ability
So, for example, Warrior of Light, which is a reprint of Jodah, the Unifier, is Standard legal because Jodah was printed in Dominaria United which is still (somehow) Standard legal
I do think its a little simple and relies too heavily on your opponents having creatures, but at the end of the day if they dont have any creatures to goad, youre going to be connecting with your dragons anyway, so who cares
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