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Or - because only exhausted characters can themselves be challenged - you can keep them back, waiting for a safer moment to act

For example, in Modern, Scapeshift is lethal once the opponent hits seven lands, so rather than casting your discard on Turn 1, it might be better to wait until the turn before your opponent is going to kill you to give your opponent more time to draw into their key spell

However, this was not as common in retro formats, so players had to find other uses for powerful cards like Painful Choice

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It became more of an investment at that point, to be honest with you. Believe it or not, he started ripping (opening) packs when he was 3, he said