They also have a foil set, and again, it will be $10 more
At first blush, that makes it sound like a net win for the old and a net loss for the new, but let's hone in on what's gone: Legacy and Theme , the former of which tasked players with tapping into only older cards, and then only from the HeartGold & SoulSilver and Black & White generations
Especially in the Commander format, a life is a very small price to pay for access to additional cards
With this, you can use a Gold token to pay the two mana for an improvised spell, and that was a little too good
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That could be equip costs, but it could also be something like, say, Gilraen, Dnedain ProtectorGilraen, Dnedain Protector, reducing the cost to a simple tap