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And all of these pieces together help you understand what you're holding and what it might be worth

Your opponent does get a creature while you are spending mana and potentially taking a turn to do nothing to your board, which is rarely a good thing, having a steady stream of Soldier tokens flooding the board can cause a lot of chaos in a game

In some cases its easy to decipher the difference between Alpha and clipped Beta because the Alpha card is printed with different wording vs

You'll usually get at least a turn or two of free card draws before people start trying to get rid of it, but that's all you need to get way ahead

Other new cards might outclass it, or counterplay might develop that reduces its dominance without completely side-lining it