Timber Wolves

Alpha Set Anomalies

This has been bothering me for the last 18 years: What's the deal with Scryb Sprites? Timber Wolves was rare because that was how R&D balanced colours getting abilities that weren't native to that colour (In that case, banding), so why would Scryb Sprites be common when green was already well established as hating flyers? (Web, Hurricane, Giant Spider) Furthermore, why was Flying Men printed and then deemed too powerful without a drawback for 15 years and 5 strictly worse variations? Help me!

Alpha was not the bastion of color pie logic.

Alpha Banding Card Printing Color Pie Colors Flying Flying Men Game Design Giant Giant Spider Green Rares Scryb Sprites Spider Timber Wolves Wolf

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