While the deck leans heavily into the idea that you want to be casting an instant or sorcery in your first main phase before combat, you never feel limited in options, and the deck still feels balanced across the board despite having a whopping 23 sorceries
"Thousand Dragon is harder to find and has better art than Gate Guardian, in my opinion," said Petipas
That extra thickness can meaningfully reduce bending, corner dings, and general wear
Since it has haste, it can always attack the turn that it comes down but it can also be flashed in as a nasty surprise for your opponents
If the gift was promised, you may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it
This doesn't happen very often when you are selling cards for real money