Maybe they wanted to avoid paper copies of complicated reconfigure creatures, since those involve a lot of moving pieces already, but the general Magic populace can handle effects like this
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So lets look at some of the biggest recent sales and see what changes Wizards has made
The same is true of exile
Again, these arent exact weeks, because were dealing with Mondays and Fridays, but this is close enough for our purposes
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