Paying three mana to add a land, even a specific one, from your deck to your hand is steep, and the ultimate payoff requiring nine different lands likely confines this card to Commander for the time being
(Looking at The Collation Project, I see English MTG sets in this era - fall 2000 was when Fossil was released in German - sometimes used striped collation, sometimes sequential collation.) The rarity table for Fossil is given below: image881670 14.7 KB There are no artificial rarity differences, and the choice which cards appear on the sheet more often seems random
You could announce your attack and then tap to kill the potential blocker
It's not great on its own, but with the right support from other Treasure Planet characters, it can pull its weight, protecting your valuable characters and generating quite a lot of lore
A quick read, but an effective one
As with their other suffixed peers, VSTARs boast inflated stat lines, better attacks, and yield more prizes on Knock Out