The first determines how much damage your character deals in a challenge, and the second tells you how much damage they can take before they're banished
Modified is going to show up in most color combinations with +1/+1 counter themes, but it is especially necessary for red
She turns her head as her hand is raised to cast the counter, implying the process is effortless for her
Another angle is to play with some of those suspend cards with no mana cost, like Ancestral Vision, Crashing Footfalls, Resurgent Belief, Lotus Bloom, or Mox Tantalite, and get a zero-mana creature in the graveyard for Ellie and Alan to discover them with
A sets print run, while not being precisely calculable, naturally ties in with a sets rarity a couple different ways
I have no problem spending bigger amounts of money on the cards if I can afford it (as long as Im not being ripped off) and I have no plan to flip the cards, at least within the next 20 or so years