>>83140754it's more to keep the creature zone less cluttered, you could probably put everything on the battle field true, it might just look nicer with it more organised and make the game state easer to understand. i remember when there was an issue in magic where a creature was also a land and someone was putting it with their lands and WotC had to make a ruling about it later
>>83140756>>83140528correct
>>83140824the biggest issue with ashizu-tear was that it was tier 0, the tear mirror match was very interactive and while still fast, the back and forth was interest and required a good knowledge of your own deck that allowed for some very good skill expression. the main issue was that it was the ONLY deck you could play and basically forced out every other deck and strategy which was terrible and ruined the format for months. a better modern format was TOSS where multiple decks were viable with that interactive gameplay and multi-turn games. it still had some of the modern issues but it was a genuinely healthy format. also note that Maxx C is not part of the TCG and it will always be a terrible card that should be banned on MD too.
tldr: a good cardgame should have multiple viable decks, good interaction with clear counterplay and a good variance in turn length. no OTKs, no FTKs and no locks and very limited floodgates
