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Azusa was clearly designed to test what kind of extra power the legend rule can keep in check, and while shes rarely mentioned in ban discussions, Azusa is always seeking the borders of what can sensibly be called balanced
You might say weve been here before, first in 2016 when Pokmon GO caused a vast amount of new interest in the TCG, and then to the most outlandish degree in 2020 and 2021, when Logan Paul sparked a wild surge in prices after paying $150,000 for a Base Set Charizard, leading to a lockdown-driven crazy spike in interest in classic cards
While other folks were busy thinking through ideas that would eventually become The Lost Caverns of Ixalan , Duskmourn: House of Horror , and Aetherdrift or putting Eldrazi in Modern Horizons 3 , I was tasked with leading a discussion about what this set would look like