Promo cards Cards that are only available through special boxes or events
A grade of 9.5 is Gem-Mint, which is a card that is nearly flawless
Still, coming out for only four mana leaves you the potential to steal the occasional game when your opponents are too busy setting up their mana rocks and ramp
Im sure many users here can recall a story where they found a card for much cheaper than market price and flipped it to make a good chunk of money, but you cant depend on this being the norm
The animal classes playing into village tropes, the seasons making use of paw prints, the various animal-centric abilities (forage, valiant, and expend) all reinforced the set's core theme, animals, in a way that made players quite happy
The reason its this high on the list is that its the first example we have where its repeatable without a tap cost