This seems like an oversight
it's a vibrant and expansive community of players, strategists, and enthusiasts
That being said, since there are much more affordable variants of these cards available, their prices hardly follow the norm
If were allowed to get out of hand, theres also the opportunity to get the Springheart Nantuko on any of these (oh, if its the Baloths!) to make token copies of them with every land, turning a modest 5-land entry on a turn from 5 4/4 beasts to 5 copies of Frenzied Baloths, plus 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 beasts, for a total of 15 4/4 beasts suddenly appearing on the field
Simply put, there should - and can - be a middle ground
The era of modern trading card games (TCGs) was in its nascent stage, with Magic the Gathering released by Wizards of the Coast just two years prior in 1993, and the Pokmon video games, which the prototypes visuals were based on, were in the final stages of development