Both sides of these cards are inefficient but give the player flexibility
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Well, some things that may draw you into specific colors are: A really strong rare you're excited about playing Having plenty of "removal"cards that can destroy, exile, or keep an opponent's card tapped Opening many cards in that color A good "mana curve" in that colorcreatures of different mana values, more on the 2, 3, or 4 end than on the 5 or greater end Several multicolor cards in those colorscards that have multiple colors are often more powerful than those with just one color Ideally, the colors you pick will have all four of those features, but if only two or three of those are true, that's plenty good
Unless you care about damaging creatures for Stuffy Doll effects, the Edict is likely the stronger of the two
We try to consolidate in any one block to only put one type of counter on creatures