They are basically the game plan
Casual Commander can be very affordable, while competitive Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and high-end collecting can become expensive quickly
It takes the fallen of every world it passes through, files off who they were, and hands them a number
Then on a later turn, that artifact causes your opponent to exile another two cards face down
You only have a miniscule 0.2% chance to find one of these in a pack, and unlike three star rarity cards, crown cards aren't pack exclusive: any of the three can show up in any pack
We could argue all day about whether people enjoyed that particular adaptation, or whether they enjoyed the one Wizards came up with, or Bakshis, but the point I want to focus on here is that to some degree, the reimagining of these iconic characters pulled the game slightly away from the fortnitification aspect, because it wasnt just a bunch of game pieces that signified something else gamepieces that would otherwise be entirely memetic