Every booster pack feels like a piece of gaming history, with the coolest cards Magic has offered in years
With the steadily increasing quality of the long-form stories published against the game, this looks like a good change as well
It just had a lot going for it super rare cards, fantastic new mechanics, and an archetype that to this day is being played in the Pokemon TCG
If one of the creatures is an illegal target and the other one isn't as The Earth Crystal's last ability tries to resolve, the original distribution of counters applies and the counter that would have been put on the illegal target is lost
This hurts the value of that one copy significantly
Goad effects like Taunt from the Rampart and Disrupt Decorum are the bluntest tools here, but you can also use Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor, Scriv, the Obligator, and Edric, Spymaster of Trest to reward your opponents getting into the red zone