If it helps, think of Items and Characters as similar (Game changing, multiple use), and Actions and Songs as similar (one-use, instant, discarded immediately after use)
On the flipside, it also grants you a blocker that is hard to interact with, which is a bonus
Prior to his purchase of The One Ring, Post Malone had bought a Black Lotus card for a total of $800,000 (621,948), making it one of the most expensive Magic: The Gathering cards ever sold
These cards are locked: 4 Cauldron Familiar 4 Priest of Forgotten Gods 4 Mayhem Devil 2 Scrapheap Scrounger 2 Woe Strider 4 Claim the Firstborn 4 Witchs Oven 4 Blood Crypt Of course, things like Priest of Forgotten Gods and Claim the Firstborn could be much weaker in certain metagames
The game was easy to pick up during my demo