For example, if you control Traveling Chocobo ("You may play lands and cast Bird spells from the top of your library.") and Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital is on top of your library, you can play Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital, but you can't cast Overture
The more deadly the lake monster, the shorter the tale
As for the rest, we're looking at the natural design trend we've been seeing ever since Dark ConfidantDark Confidant: Creatures are easily removable, so it's easy to put powerful card advantage mechanics on them for cheaper than you'd see them otherwise
The Heavy Hitters Even though Fallen Empires didn't have any valuable cards, that doesn't mean that it was all bad
While well probably have to wait and see how good Mistrise Village actually is, I think that it has a ton of potential in the right decks
If in response to a buyout, you can find copies of a card at its old price, then its probably fine to sink the funds in if its a card youre OK with keeping for a while