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#9 Minun Illustration Rare In the games, Minun and Plusle are often depicted as two peas in a pod
It was clear to us that having an R&D member do that would either take a long time or would distract us from other important design work
Having previously led the vision design for Bloomburrow , his designer hat came in handy for exploring resonant and more "out there" mechanics involving exploring the House of Horror
::pukes:: Just kidding, no reboots here, but seriously though, I am going to talk some more about those three cards, but I'm not going to rehash the fact that other formats treat them differently (by banning or restricting them) than we do in pauper