Theyre asked if many competitive players make the transition to the playtesting team, and they explain that the skills that make a good competitive player dont always line up with what makes a good playtester, because a playtester isnt always trying to win, theyre trying to combine all sorts of cards in weird ways to really test the limits of what they can do
Tord Reklev made an incredibly consistent version and piloted it to an impressive 1st place finish at Internationals, so even with Gardevoir-GX in the mix, we still expect to see it played in decent numbers
Even funnier: Unlimited got released 9 days before the CE, on December 1st, 1994
The decks commander, Riku of Two Reflections, really promotes this strategy by duplicating your instants and sorceries with its first activated ability (an effective Galvanic Iteration) and copying your nontoken creatures for
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That record has now been beaten by $130,000
