So those packs could have two rares, or even potentially two mythics of course those odds are vanishingly small
The Special Illustration Rare does not need to be the loudest card in the set to work, because its appeal comes from the purple flames, eerie atmosphere, and the way the artwork makes Mega Chandelure feel like it is glowing from inside the darkness
As the gentleman who helped me at the game shop that day put it after I explained, "You could not have picked a worse time to try and get back into this." And he's not wrong -- prices on some of the cards I would need to seek out like Charizard, Mewtwo and others, are already expensive now, and this is a project that will take years, not months, to complete these sets
Serra Redeemer and Felidar Retreat do a lot of work here, but so too do our Melee creatures just like in Neyali
It has adapted to the modern cube meta and is far lower to the ground and trying to abuse synergies far more than just having high powered individual cards