Illustrators work is front-and-centre on Pokmon cards, but behind the scenes, a lot more hard work goes into keeping competitive play balanced work that falls to Creatures Incs unsung heroes, its internal game testers
The most iconic dorks are Elvish Mystic, Birds of Paradise, and Noble Hierarch, but there are dozens of playable options
[ Editor's Note: The updated rules for Planar Magic cap the number of phenomenon cards at two, for an individual's own Planar deck, or twice the number of players starting the game, for multiplayer games using one shared Planar deck.] Even assuming only two phenomena per deck, Interplanar Tunnel at worst puts four planes that you dont want now at the bottom of your planar deck, bringing you that much closer to the plane you are looking for
Black tribal zombie decks have many zombie lords while there is only one blue zombie lord- and he's blue black
Unlike games like Pokemon, MTG is a bit more limited in its draw cards and there are several that are considered too powerful and have been banned from multiple formats
So, if I drop turn one Sol Ring or turn two Arcane Signet, that's one after him for artifacts