Obviously extra utility is nice, and as mentioned, hard to evaluate in the context of this article
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Coming in first place is a rare achievement in anything, and with Magic: The Gathering's First-Place Foil Box Toppers, you can capture that feeling in your decks
As you can tell from the Twitter post (assuming that you can read Japanese), this is meant as an incentive for Japanese audiences, so no point chasing after these in your English Collector Booster boxes
With our borderless planeswalker cards, we wanted to show the Planeswalkers taking on the various perils of Zendikar
From there, it simply stays in play, quietly building value