How you play and the order you play your cards is entirely up to you
If Stage One cards trade off ease of use in exchange for more firepower and perks, then Stage Two Pokmon cards take this trade and crank it up to eleven
With so many good instants available, once a player untapped with a Shadowmage Infiltrator and an otherwise empty board the game was practically over, and if there was some small threat left over it could be dealt with in due time
Embracing White-Bordered Cards Adhering to tournament-legal English cards while maintaining our $65K value target meant necessarily including white-bordered cards, so we leaned into it a bit
Your win condition is how you plan to win the game
(Other than, well, losing all abilities, of course.) This is a rule change that happened as Final Fantasy was released