In one playtest one of my opponents was playing The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, which made it difficult to maintain my wide board state
The big downside to this is that you dont get to play either of the potent delve spells mentioned earlier in this article since theyre so hard to cast with a Fires of Invention on the battlefield, but the upside is that you get to attack from multiple degenerate angles at once such that your opponent isnt going to set you back that far by just holding open interaction for your combo
The thing is, once you reach seven lands in your graveyard, you start to make copies of this card, which can give you a flying army very fast
The new exclusive cards introduced in these decks were much stronger than weve usually seen, and thanks to some direct Secret Lair upgrades, these precons can also be tuned to be extremely competitive rather easily
Being so hard to one shot you typically give the blue player the chance to untap with Tamiyo still alive which means even if you got her low there is a high chance of some Confluence, Command, Cyclonic Rift or other tedium that is going to ensure she lives longer still
A background character from an older set can sit well below $50 while a beloved protagonist from a newer set commands several hundred dollars