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So, for example, suppose you have a five-cost Marrow-Gnawer

Even if you draft too many Sacred Cats, you can leave some in the sideboard for other aggressive decks for when you need time to go grindy with your better Embalm creatures or to set up a big turn with In Oketras Favor

This is important, because standard free-for-all Magic tends to be more endurance test and chat-fest than actual game everyone sit around, randomly pick at people, turtle up, and ignore the guy who built the abusive innocent-looking deck until he combo kills the entire table three hours later (having spent at least two of those hours whining about how he wasnt a threat

It's quite the face puncher

And thats to say nothing of the Strip Mines and Lakes of the Dead

After that perfect example of the risks inherent to pushing the balance envelope in Standard sets, I predicted that these rapid bannings would only escalate in 2020, unless the philosophy behind such cards was wound back