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I agree that CCGs have a fundamentally different model, but in the standard CCG model, yes, there are ultra-rare cards, but most anyone who is a serious player will be buying enough copies to end up with one or more of them, and no one card should be significantly better than the others

You can get some interesting value out of legendary creatures with powerful attack triggers like Aragorn and Arwen, Wed and The Tarrasque

Again, I wonder if this just the effect of magic seeing large growth in the past few years and that growth feeding into commander just as much as it has in other formats like standard

Of course, if you have Urza, Lord High Artificer in play, you can add infinite blue mana to all that