Play cards featuring fan-favorite characters, and battle with iconic monsters like beholders, mimics, mind flayers, andof courselegendary dragons
Your opponent is unlikely to go up to three creatures once this is in play, and if they already have three, then spending your turn on a four-mana do-nothing enchantment isnt a great move
Youll run into: Tokens (usually standard size, but occasionally printed in other sizes depending on product) Emblems and checklist/helper cards (standard size) Oversized cards (promos, special products, Planechase planes, Archenemy schemes, Vanguard, and other delightful chaos)
The other reason was that Fires of Yavimaya was in exactly the right spot on the mana curve
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