There is already a tremendous organic groundswell of acceptance for gold-bordered cards in casual and competitive play
In June, 2009, Braids singlehandedly created the Banned as General list, one that wed use for another five years, until removing it in September 2014
The second landfall flips over the creature
Pet Card Database Creature (23) 1x Charix, the Raging Isle 1x Clackbridge Troll 1x Dralnu, Lich Lord 1x Golden Guardian Flip 1x Guile 1x Kami of False Hope 1x Maddening Imp 1x Magebane Lizard 1x Mindslicer 1x Norin the Wary 1x Novablast Wurm 1x Olivia, Mobilized for War 1x Palace Sentinels 1x Panglacial Wurm 1x Phyrexian Infiltrator 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods 1x Pygmy Kavu 1x Scheming Fence 1x Shadowmage Infiltrator 1x Spore Frog 1x Suture Priest 1x Thieving Amalgam 1x Yasharn, Implacable Earth Land (3) Sorcery (19) 1x Aether Snap 1x Beacon of Tomorrows 1x Choice of Damnations 1x Clone Legion 1x Cultural Exchange 1x Disrupt Decorum 1x Guided Passage 1x Head Games 1x Lively Dirge 1x Make an Example 1x Mythos of Brokkos 1x Pir's Whim 1x Raven's Crime 1x Seismic Sense 1x Sever the Bloodline 1x Syphon Mind 1x Tragic Arrogance 1x Tunnel Vision 1x Wargate Artifact (11) Enchantment (17) 1x Compost 1x Death Pits of Rath 1x Deathgrip 1x Descent into Avernus 1x Dual Nature 1x Dystopia 1x Elemental Mastery 1x Energy Flux 1x Hedonist's Trove 1x Infernal Darkness 1x Lifeforce 1x Lurking Predators 1x Psychic Surgery 1x Tainted Remedy 1x Zur's Weirding
There are tons of ways to work around this and make it a more than viable strategy, but it still isnt as game-breaking as it was in other formats
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