How Dimir Ramps in Commander Artifact acceleration through mana rocks, signets, and talismans Black ritual effects for explosive single-turn mana bursts Blue tempo and untap synergies for incremental advantage Treasure generation from both colors' synergies Is Dimir Ramp Good in EDH
Bulbapedia, an online Pokmon encyclopedia, indicates that the Pokmon Fossil 1st Edition cards were originally slated to be released "around January 2000," but the release date was bumped up to October 10, 1999
We never came close to completing a collection, but we had plenty of cards to play our approximation of the game with
Spear Cretin and The Shallow Grave reanimate lost worms or jars
A good reason for going mono-black is that black can cover almost all bases well (except artifact destruction)
The second reason big expensive creatures tend to underwhelm is the demands of match tempo