In a momentum-based market, its important to cash in on your medium-speculative purchases that dont have a high ceiling
The problem (in Modern anyway) wasn't that one deck was dominating or that a particular card was obviously broken
Decks that used Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin had color combinations and strategy flavors that were already a consistent survivor of the meta, even as Esper took flight once again and Izzet started retaking the Standard Aggro reins
So, with cards that give you the ability to draw and then discard one, or even when an opponent makes you discard a card, you just get to swing on people for, relatively, free
He did not know a soul here when he moved to the Inland Northwest
That said, I don't think any readers here would blame you if you turned a bird in for $200,000 or even $77,000