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These sort of cards are vanishingly rare because it combines care and luck from the printing process all the way to opening the pack with potentially grubby fingers

The Soul Stone Even without all the harnessing and sacrifice text, The Soul Stone would be playable purely as an indestructible, untapped mana rock for 2 mana

The card boosts Rigger creatures (which didnt exist at the time) and cares about Contraptions being assembled (which, again, wasnt a thing)

In those days, a popular sequence was to open with Dark Ritual into a Black Knight or pump knight, with a Thrull Retainer to make an immediate threat that beat both Swords to Plowshares and Lightning Bolt