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Among these new cards are two featuring spellbooks: Alchemy: Aetherdrift Spellbooks article
Rares are where you start seeing more powerful build-arounds, board wipes, pushed creatures, unusual enchantments, premium lands, and cards with effects that would be miserable if they appeared too often in Limited
With a few proliferate effects or another method of stacking up loyalty counters, Ral can pop off in just a few turns, and he's likely to refund at least a few of those turns right away
This made Mew VMAX the centerpiece of one of the most dominant competitive archetypes in the Sword & Shield format, and the demand for Mew VMAX cards from this set reflects that legacy