lotus mtg cards Black - Full Art Custom Card From the Urzas Saga set. Black Lotus from Vintage Masters

The biggest offender is as soon as the fourth story battle, the infamous Dorter City Slums, where the enemy quality takes a big spike and starts with significant positional advantage, while a player that didn't make a beeline to getting the JP Gain Up/JP Boost ability and a few good early-obtainable skills on everyone will be left with weak Squires/Chemists and Knights/Archers/Wizards/Priests with little usable skills if they didn't do any random battles nor intentionally stall out the prior story battles to get more EXP/JP

Win, swing and draw and self-protect in an on curve Izzet Shark

Bloom Tender and Faeburrow Elder provide the best mana advantage possible for a multicolor deck like this

After moving to SF I would occasionally play with some friends who had a game group or do drafts