Each character has a Strength value (how much damage they do in challenges), a Willpower value (how much damage they can take before being discarded), and a Lore value (how many points they give you when they quest)
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Which, granted, is definitely something you could do
While pain and death are useful tools for motivating the living, you cant coerce inanimate objects or raw magic, meaning that black has no recourse for dealing with artifacts and enchantments en masse without enlisting the aid of another color or a colorless card
Finally comes the holographic cards the card art is holographic, but every other part of the card stays regular
To play to Firkraag's reputation for cunning ploys, the deck ignores the regular draconic gameplay of colossal beatdowns or even the usual red-blue gameplay of spellslinging to instead get political