According to the sets narrative design lead, Crystal Frasier, the team was conscious of that overlap
The untap and pump combination means that all of your instants become combat tricks, and if the power of Ponder and Preordain has taught us anything, it should be obvious that tagging a loot onto every non-creature spell we cast is quite powerful
Kaalia of the Vast Kaalia of the Vast is the classic Mardu good stuff commander, combining three of the colors most powerful creature types into one brutal deck
At a Wilds Unknown prerelease, you get 6 booster packs and 20 minutes to sort, register, and build a playable deck of at least 40 cards
For that reason, Altair Ibn-LaAhad, and some other Mythic Rare Assassins, got a lot more expensive than expected
Each card in The First Chapter can appear in both its standard version and in a holographic foil variant, meaning that there are 408 different physical cards to collect if youre after a full set