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The Sturdy qualifier definitely isn't a lie for this card , with a willpower of five bolstered by a Resist +1 to reduce incoming damage, making it easy to generate three lore each turn unperturbed

While requiring one of your non-skeleton creatures to die isn't trivial, it's also fairly simple to enable in the kinds of decks that best utilize these cards

But if you can second-guess their priorities from that first choice, you can try and follow up in a way which disrupts them

Even a card like Charming Prince has three abilities, copying what charms in Magic do

Overall, the era has been a mixed bag, but the best sets still stand out