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The total window across the four major US retailers where this product was actually buyable was under an hour

Community data suggests SECs appear roughly once every 3 boxes, making them significantly more accessible than Comic Parallels or Anniversary SPs

While at MagicCon Vegas in late September this year, I spoke with Mike Turian, product architect for Magic (though his role while M21 was in design was principal product designer, according to his LinkedIn), and he confirmed that for M21 the design for showcase cards was intended to keep the text boxes clean and uncluttered, kind of like you would see in simple but powerful spells with only a few words on them, like Wrath of God or Counterspell

Cards like Secure the Wastes, Reverent Hoplite, and even Myr Battlesphere have been conscripting hapless soldiers since the dawn of time in the mid-2010s

Cycling is rough, though, and Standard already has Dreams of Steel and Oil that serves a similar function

Board complexity tends to boil down to several categories: First is the subset of cards that affect other permanents on the battlefield