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Power matters, but synergy and consistency matter more

Once you've made it to the mid-to-late game, the value of lands entering untapped begins to fall, so Starting Town's drawback becomes less and less crushing

Moreover, whenever one or more creatures we control with power 4 or greater attack, we search our library for up to that many basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped, making him an insane ramp engine for our build

So most of us had our starter decks and things (including myself), but it was sort of just another fad in comparison to Pokemon and it did not sustain itself nearly as strongly or for as long either