You can spend mana and exile a creature to harness The Soul Stone and create your own reanimator engine
Pull rates for SIRs and Hyper Rares in the Scarlet and Violet era are low enough that the expected cost of pulling a specific card through pack opening almost always exceeds the cost of purchasing it as a single, sometimes by a significant margin
Like many vintage items, its generally older, rarer and iconic cards in good condition that fetch the highest prices
There are gold coins, which you can earn through battling, completing quests, and leveling up
(In addition, it allowed me to demonstrate that it was possible to make a vanilla legend that would excite some players.) Meanwhile, the oldest Magic designer of all (in terms of how many years he'd been designing both Bill Rose and Mike Elliott are older than Richard), Richard Garfield, started thinking about cool things you could do with legendary creatures