Additional strategies are: anthems, creature/board protection, cleric/human tribal, tokens and some life gain effects
As you can see, these numbers go up in a hurry once Revised shows up, which tracks with Magics transition from that cool game you saw folks play when you went to Gen Con last year to every schoolkid in the country knows what a Shivan Dragon is. And the reality is that the stuff from the ABU era is probably even scarcer than this list makes it out to be
Due to the rarity of fractured foil Japanese Showcase variants, top prices run in the hundreds
Steel cards are also aimed at the combative style of play, as these Glimmers have higher Strength and Willpower stats
While I easily looked up the prices for my English foils on MTGPrice.com, attempting to pin a value on foreign cards required more digging, and the fact that Korean was the second rarest language made it felt like trudging through a wild west of card price
This can be obvious from the effect