That means players going into local game stores regularly may have a bit more of a chance to get the cards they need.
I suspect the decline of Rivers Rebuke can be blamed almost entirely on Deflecting Swat, as nobody wants to invest 6 mana only to have their targeted board wipe pointed back at them for free, but I personally dont think this potent spell is all that much worse now than it was years ago
And if you think that Spidey has it bad in this panel, wait to hear what Doc Ock did to him many years later in the Superior Spider-Man story
The idea is to create a defensive fort around yourself, making you less of a target
In ascending order you would walk through Japanese, then Chinese, then Korean and Russian in terms of scarcity and value for US collectors
Exponential Growth, Arcane Subtraction, Divide by Zero, Serpentine Curve, Emergent Sequence, Golden Ratio, Solve the Equation, Square Up