When we make a card that speaks to great power bearing great responsibility, theres room to add mechanical complexity because folks understand the story the card is telling
The best part is when there will be newly printed cards releasing that suddenly enable something Id been wanting to make for months. In my case, not knowing the exact list of each deck just plays into how I want to use these Battle Decks
I'll also use Counterspell as an example: In an attempt to illustrate this slight difference between Alpha and Beta, the following image shows an Alpha Island, on the left - rounded edge-, and a Beta Island, on the right: Something curious is that in Beta the cards of the illustrator Douglas Shuler have a printing error, in Beta, Douglas Schuler appears, with the letter c
Final Fantasy 13 is also this sets only instance of the Meld mechanic, which lets you fuse the Fang and Vanille cards into Ragnarok
This means your cards will stay firmly inside the sleeves, reducing the likelihood of delamination where the outer layers of the sleeves start to peel apart after heavy use