A creature token The challenge of gifts was that they had to be things that were generically useful
Regardless, the ring is overtuned, but I guess thats to be expected given that Wizards of the Coast made a whole marketing campaign around opening it
A common concern at the time was making sure that players had some way to still impact the later turns of the game
In that regard, they're both great successes
On a naked board, you can toss a +1/+1 counter on something
Many key Legacy lands are on the reserved list, for example, so a Legacy manabase can easily cost more than $2000.) Aware of this history, Wizards played it safe with MM1: conservative print runs, and an MSRP of $7 per pack, in the hopes of making a limited-release reprint set that wouldnt crater existing card prices