It only takes one mill-10 trigger with the monarch to make this card worth its in a graveyard deck
That was until Roaring Moon ex was printed in the Scarlet & Violet era, where it snuck back in while it was still legal to make the Darkness-type one to be afraid of
When I first started playing in 1995, I knew people whose goal it was to own a copy of every card in each set, to have a complete collection of Magic
With approximately six years of blended design and development on the set, I can only imagine that a lot of ideas were heralded as perfect only to be looked at again six months to a year later and determined that they could be even better
Things like clean card templating, readable text hierarchy, consistent icon systems, accurate alignment, strong rarity design, durable stock, and cohesive artwork all contribute to how polished the final game feels during play
Counterfeiters often use similar but incorrect typefaces that look slightly off to trained eyes