Crucially, the Unglued basic lands, while visually different from their predecessors, were not treated as jokes
The symbols create a shared language
Until then, take care of yourselves, good luck, and maybe we will do battle in one of Magic Onlines draft queues
The first is that while excess damage is any type of damage (be it combat damage or direct damage), some excess damage cards specifically care about combat or non-combat damage
Specifically, each time it shuffles the deck it's completely random, but when drawing an opening hand it actually draws 2 random hands internally and gives you the one that has the proportion of lands in the hand closest to the proportion of lands in the deck
As it stands now, there are few payoffs for playing a lifegain deck in Pauper