As I browse some of the more popular cards in the set on TCGplayer, Im seeing an extremely small amount of copies in stockit kind of reminds me of Alpha in how sparse the inventory is
Because it was the most difficult promotional card to earn in the club's history, the population of the original Gold Star Umbreon is really low
The only question at this point is how much room do we have to devote to Stax cards that don't synergize with the rest of the deck
Smaller deck sizes and more copies of cards lead to better consistency, but this is often antithetical to fun when you play the same decks against each other many times
Then again, you just can't please everybody, and when there arent enough cards to make a format interesting, then Explorer: Quality Above Quantity Explorer is a format unique to Magic Arena: it encompasses all the Pioneer cards that exist on Arena, but as of now only around 70% of the Pioneer cards are available on MTGA
The reason is treasure tokens are incredibly strong