That being said, items are clearly getting a further boost as a strategy in Into the Inklands, and this card only furthers the viability of that strategy
But even then, that combo just pulls all the basic lands out of your deck, it doesn't just flat out win the game, and certainly doesn't do so on the same turn that other players are still floundering with Cultivates and Command Spheres
But because we know there are cards in those early sets that are important to a lot of fans deck-building strategies, and we know not everybody got the cards they wanted the first year, were re-printing some cards from those first sets in Fabled
Because the set was announced so early and I was still in the thick of working on it as people learned about it, I had the unique opportunity to hear about what people wanted while we could get it into the set
And if that target is a player, that player cant gain life
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