Both cases are justified as the entire story is portrayed as a recently-revealed scripture detailing the story of Ramza and the truth behind the War of the Lions
Countering the counter to your counter
We believe Standard play may be hurt in the short term by one or two dominant decks
They can be played alongside high-cost cards in order to spend your extra ink and develop your board, they can get buffed by a Support character like Rolly and become a cheap way to trade up into bigger threats, and Lucky can discover them when you use his ability Good as New, making them more valuable in your deck than in your hand
With the Secrets of Strixhaven decks being much newer (and not yet released at the time of writing), we're taking into account their reprint value, deck lists, mechanics, any clear synergies we can see on paper, upgradability, and whether we think the decks will be fun to play with
You can break this effect in something like Neera, Wild Mage by having a bunch of scry effects and expensive spells, but even then it could still easily backfire and kill you