A balanced mana curve (or ink curve in this case) might include a healthy number of low-cost cards (cost 1-3) for early game, a solid midrange (cost 4-5), and a few heavy hitters (6-8) for late game finishers
In practice, it was even larger, with 309 cards in total
This makes buying a Lair a gamble, since youre relying on secondary market markups to prop up your purchase
Sometimes you can even build a massive Voltron with something like Adelbert Steiner and get it to the point where it outsizes a Balamb T-Rexaur
Cards like Wellspring of Life or commanders that gain life make the four-life payments trivial, turning this into a powerful card advantage engine
All characters ready up at the start of your turn, so they generally can act once per turn cycle