If you open cards in one language and then change your game to be a different language, say Japanese, you can then collect the Japanese variants of the card, in addition to the English versions you have
Tainted Wisdom Tainted Wisdom is the oldest card to make this article, being originally released in 2002, and has quite possibly one of the most situational and useless effects that is possible to print on a trading card
Wandering Archaic manages to tick both boxes
When it enters the battlefield, reanimate a creature from an opponent's graveyard Give it haste and exile it at the end of the turn It has persist, so it comes back with a -1/-1 counter when it dies A look that makes me worry if the Alien franchise will be angry Simple is best: it enters the battlefield with three -1/-1 counters Be careful, if you mispronounce it, it becomes Kawasaki-san ETB spreads +1/+1 counters on each creature And it puts them on itself too Another welcome reprint It's cute with a Black Lotus on its head When it enters the battlefield, put three -1/-1 counters on one of your creatures And remove a -1/-1 counter from it to add mana Creatures that can remove counters on their own Are excellent targets for -1/-1 counters A mana dork that untaps when you put a -1/-1 counter on it It's designed to let you produce two mana just once But it's often abused as a combo piece If you exile this from your graveyard with Hazel's Brewmaster It creates a Food token that is a copy of this So even if you put infinite -1/-1 counters on it, it won't die And it generates infinite green mana A monster Food token that would surprise even Jiro Proliferate on landfall Three fetch lands were included Enters the battlefield with one -1/-1 counter on it and if you remove one -1/-1 counter from it, it destroys a permanent Have they finally started touching non-creature permanents
The cards aren't anything special, they behave like normal cards, but their origin is entirely from the draft mechanic
Update: 01/15/2024, 9:55 a.m
