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Thing is, planeswalkers get their loyalty counters when they enter the battlefield as a replacement effect, but transforming does not count as entering the battlefield (that's why Sorin's regular transformation tells you to exile it, and then return it transformed)

Macros are best suited for predictable loops

"ith the advent of play boosters, is the rule of approximately 6 months later still the case?"

If youre playing a Sultai deck, King Macar, the Gold-Cursed is the one youll want

So Common cards and Uncommon contain more vanilla cards (with no rules text) or cards with just one keyword, up to 5 or 6 ink cost at max

It lets you rummagediscard and drawand deals damage to a creature or planeswalker equal to the mana value of the discarded card, as long as its not a land