It's fair to say Wizards of the Coast dropped the ball with Companion, which lets you play with an eighth card in your hand, provided you meet restrictive deck-building requirements
3 Some tribes may need support by other ways of design, or rather you can tailor some of them to help support archetypes in your cube (my soldiers can support generic aggro, token, heroic, and probably some other things as well)
Thats an area where Orchard Strider cant even slightly compete with the 1-mana forestcycling ability on the better treefolk, and power creep wins again as we shake our fists at the sky
With Steel type Pokemon in the video games and Metal type energy in the Trading Card Game, you would think itd be obvious what Metal Pokemon cards are but if youve actually seen one, it may have left you a little confused
Side Deck Discussion: I omitted the side deck from the list because I want to change it once Duelist Alliance come out, which ill talk about why