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Parker highlights the Protection mechanic as one of the games greatest offenders the high-level concept made flavor sense to designers in the early 90s, but the many layers of minutiae developed in the decades since has muddied this mechanic beyond its original intent

Disciplined Subgroups (Council of Colors August 2015) As I explained in the first part of this series, early Magic was designed to maximize the excitement of each individual card

One thing that Sagas do really well is make tokens, which is great for us because we cant just rely on Tom to protect our life totals

And the fact that it dies and leaves behind a treasure token is a nice little bonus