Whether you play a Madness shell or try to cast gigantic spells for free, The Infamous Cruelclaw can get ahead of the curve real quick
This mechanic has any player with Rad counters on them mill that many cards from their deck, losing one life for each nonland card milled this way, and then they lose one rad counter
Clearly the Phyrexian oil containers were rusting, as this was a particularly leaky MTG set, with grainy images of all sorts of cards turning up on social media
At tournament and casual play levels, the most expensive cards aren't much more expensive than any other game, and people who buy booster boxes today will often have a personal reason for choosing one card game over the other
While foiling both sides of a Magic card might work (they have been proven to warp less), the unintended side effect is that foil cards would be even harder to keep in Near Mint condition