Sapphire cards offer players a more strategic style of play, with more cards that have abilities affecting the gameplay through discards, revivals, and card buffs
Players will want to take advantage of all the various forms of removal in the Emerald and Ruby starter deck, from returning Characters to a players hand through Cruella de Vil, Miserable as Usual, and Action cards like Dragon Fire
After that, youre ready to play
Paying 2 mana to deny your opponent 1 is the kind of exchange thats only useful when youre far enough ahead on board to leverage the inconvenience of playing off-curve
It becomes a lot more difficult to win with Thassas Oracle if your graveyard gets shuffled back into your library and Underworld Breach wont do much if your opponent doesnt have a graveyard
She'll effortlessly make treasure tokens that will help power up your early game, and if you've got no use for the additional mana, you'll be able to turn those treasures into 4/4 dragons that can attack immediately