Correctly identifying what each die on an opponents creatures represented made this a resoundingly unfun experience, and Wizards has focused on only using +1/+1 or -1/-1 counters at any given time since then
While I personally think that Exocrine s ability to clear the board and possibly even finish off opponents if life totals are low enough pushes it over the top, there are a variety of useful effects to be found among these creatures
They're logistically complex, requiring either sleeves or checklist cards
"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die These feature the language of the High Elves, Quenya, in Tengwar letterforms
Locally, here in Malaysia at Classroom Cafe an LGS store we go to (in fact, got our decks at) during the pre-order phase, it was going roughly RM 157.5- RM 175 per deck (if you pre-ordered the bundle of 4 pre-cons)