He has a degree in Film Studies (he gets to write about Film and TV occasionally, too).
Years later though we got a stronger version with Niv-Mizzet, Parun, which I wrote a budget primer on and loved to so much that I built a paper version of the $50 deck that I've been slowly upgrading ever since
It churns through the additional land draws and gets you to your answers at alarming speed
Others are simpler to set up, but the player using them must take into account many factors to determine if it is the right time to set the status, and a notable example of this is the Burned status condition
The cards that were desirable before the boom are more likely to hold value
Granted, a year ago these were selling for around $210, but in the grand scheme these havent completely collapsed and I suspect the price is going to stabilize in this range rather than dip even lower