-color pie is strictly defined on an effect/board level

-the internal balancing is transparent and predictable

-power creep cannot exist due to the formulaic assignment of costs. Old cards will always be useful

-every card is useful in multiple contexts

-can be arbitrarily expanded

-the game contains a vastly simplified miniature version of itself by just isolating the fren card type

-the entire balance (cost to effect correspondence) across all cards can be changed and controlled from a single table

-low (exoteric) and high (esoteric) level gameplay available via the same cards/rules due to the strictness of the color pie and effect distribution

-complexity of interactions are produced from a relatively small number of predefined effects mixed together

-effects, terminology, and symbols are generalized across all cards/effects

-knowledge from mtg, yugioh, and other tcgs/tabletop has a high transfer rate. shares most in common with early magic and yugioh

-small number of special cases – special cases are are just applications of general rules in uncommon contexts

-basic rules fit on a playmat

-advanced rules fit on 1 side of 1 page

-no financial motive in game design (chase cards, randomization, pandering, unbalanced rare cards, etc)

-skill > cards

-can be played by 2+ players using the same rules

-deck optimization is streamlined due to transparency of internal balancing and construction of the game database

-development is open to the community

-the physical game is literally free

If I had a share for every time GME crabbed at $23 i'd have exactly as many shares as I have.

BTC literally can't go under 100k without activating my slurp card