For your cards to stay as perfect as your ad photos, you need to maintain them under certain conditions
The way Wizards handled the Stranger Things Secret Lair by respecting Magic s core flavor and accessibility remains a model for the right way to do this.
But a lot of fans, once they learned we were doing this collaboration, were like, What about Strixhaven Stadium as Blitzball stadium? People asked for this specifically, and I designed the original Strixhaven Stadium, too
The second strategy is to go a bit wider
This is because the cards were reportedly a part of a printing test run by Wizards of the Coast ahead of the official launch of the Pokemon TCG
The Gitrog Monster is a great example of this, forcing you to sacrifice a land or sacrifice itself, the upside is you get to play an extra land each turn