Midrange strategies can play Lumra as a potent six mana threat that incidentally provides them with plenty more lands to help fuel their one-for-one trades and slowly accrued advantages, creating a situation where creature lands might be the only real win condition they need if Lumra gets answered
Print-on-demand proxies are for the part of Magic that actually happens most of the time: kitchen-table games, Commander nights, cube drafts, gauntlet testing, and I want to try this deck before I spend rent money on cardboard. The hard part isnt finding a printer
(2024-09-20) Snake and Glimmer are both creature types
The older tokens are still around and have turned into collectors items
Of course, it's impossible to draw too much information from one card purchase - the buyer may have just gotten lucky on this particular Charizard auction
It makes The Walls of Ba Sing Se even more of a problem, and the cost reduction really helps because this deck is going to be mana-hungry