Older Pokmon cards were frequently played with or damaged by children, so there arent many that are in perfect condition
First, you can pay three to find the best land in your deck Serra's SanctumSerra's Sanctum, perhaps
Sure, you don't redraw either, but you're playing a deck where you need to discard cards, which means you're doing something unfair, which means even fair cards that hit everyone are unfair to your opponents
While weve already discussed a number of Stoneforge Mystic decks this week, beginning with its very first Pro Tour, you knew wed have to save its greatest glory, Caw-Blade, for her: Creatures (8) Planeswalkers (7) Lands (26) Spells (19) 3 Mana Leak 4 Day of Judgment 4 Spell Pierce 1 Deprive 4 Preordain 1 Stoic Rebuttal 1 Sylvok Lifestaff 1 Sword of Feast and Famine Sideboard Caw-Blade wasnt just the deck of the tournament, it would go on to become the most dominant deck of the Standard era over a sustained period
Conversely, trimming a Cube is a matter of eliminating archetypes and redundancies at the higher points of the mana curve, thereby tightening the power band