Before a game began, each player would choose a card at random from their deck and set those cards aside in the ante zone
4 Riverpyre Verge 4 Spirebluff Canal 4 Steam Vents 4 Monument to Endurance 4 Artist's Talent 3 Mountain 2 Iroh's Demonstration 2 Quantum Riddler 1 Fire Magic 1 Agna Qel'a 1 Impractical Joke 4 Price of Freedom 3 Colorstorm Stallion 2 Three Steps Ahead 2 Pit of Offerings 2 Quantum Riddler 1 Spell Snare 1 Thor, God of Thunder Izzet Lessons is a control deck built around a dense suite of Lesson cards, many of them efficient removal spells
if you give your alluring creature a bunch of buffs, then make it indestructible or use a card like Eerie Interference or Dolmen Gate, you can blitz through your opponents boards in a couple of combats
Especially if you have more than two colors
This gives us a chance to improve our luck, and you can even copy them if you want to, to try and shift the odds in your favor even more
So long as silver borders were the mark of Un-set cards, mixing legality within a set remained a technical roadblock