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Instead, the partner with pairs allows WotC to dig into a design space thats too specific to be broadly applied, and it lets them test out very specific play patterns

And youre gonna be running as many card-draw-punish cards as card draw cards

Before there was a formal tournament structure or if you were just playing kitchen-table casual Magic you would put as many Plague Rats as you owned in a deck and have at it

Some abilities trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell." Such an ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger

It can destroy any permanent (even lands) at instant speed, and the drawback certainly is something that Green players can handle