Draw #7 For my final story, I'll talk about the design of one other card that cares about being in your opening hand: Gemstone Caverns
White and black decks interested in creating many tokens and sacrificing them will usually play this card because they already get the damage upfront
This makes them incredibly useful in a wide range of decks that dont have mono-greens ramp
The article divides MTG's history into four eras: the Limited Edition Era (1993, covering Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited), the Golden Age (1993 to 2003, from Arabian Nights onwards), the Block Era (2003 to 2018), and the Modern Shift (2019 onwards, when core sets fell away and Universes Beyond crossovers began)
The groans your foes elicit when you reveal it
Of course, draw cards come in many different variants