With smart synergy, strong Trainer tools, and Radiant support, this one appealed to serious players and lore fans alike
These can be great entry points for players to the game, as they include all the components needed to play, as well as some beautifully designed extras that can help make it even more special
Feeding into lifegain strategies with a powerful removal effect, Karlov enables two powerful abilities to work in tandem and is a steal at only WB to cast
Tense, thematic, excellent variability, and even a fourth act deck if you spring for the Return To expansion
My intuition has always been that there have been lots of times, especially when there were a lot of ways to search your library, where playing a few more than 60 cards was right, but its very hard to do, to convince others to try, to reconfigure the math on what it all means, and just to build a deck without the constraint of figuring out exactly 60