Finally, you had a huge library of novels dedicated to the story of this amazing game world, books which when released coincided with card set releases so that when you read a book about a certain part of the history of the game, you then got to play it out in the card game
Here is my copy on the right next to a regular Expedition Base Set Pikachu): image19201276 203 KB image19201237 121 KB And the Sample Pikachu from the New York Press Conference of August 2002 is also pretty rare, since only 100 of these were made, of which 50 were used at the event and 50 were held by staff
The God of Lies has also seen solid amounts of gameplay in other Magic formats like Commander, Modern, and Pioneer
Surveil is a different effect entirely, and closer to self-mill than discard
He writes mostly about Modern, but plays Legacy and Pioneer as well
At the time, New World Order (a design paradigm about reducing card complexity at common) was relatively recent and in full effect, while our post-Dominaria world intentionally has a fair degree more complexity
