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The sheer amount of stats you get for is excellent

You might wonder: why bother with these over rares

Xantcha's first ability is a replacement effect that modifies how it enters the battlefield, not a triggered ability

Take in all the good cards, horde them until no one can get their hands on them to up the price, then use the lack of supply to shell out the pack for it at a premium, only selling the best cards out of the set when the value is high enough

this is the bleed, which is a common practice used in all kinds of printing

Contrast this with blue, which gets multiple cheap instant-speed answers, plus the likes of Resculpt, bringing artifact removal to blue with a worse token exchange than Angelic Ascension