Parallel Lives is more permanent but slower, while Second Harvest is a huge, one-time payoff for a large board state of Elf creature tokens
This was a new design where either you could keep Kain and keep attacking to draw cards and lose life or give it to an opponent to force them to take damage
Although it has since proven to be much quicker to defeat than that for appropriately leveled and equipped characters, it's still a memorable boss, especially given the initial hype surrounding it
Of course, it gets better in a spider deck since it gives them all riot
Marcy: The 'max damage' amount that became synonymous with Final Fantasy, 9999 is often the highest allowable single target damage you can do in the game
While some people have argued that Wizards would find a way to adapt and move forward like the music industry did in response to its piracy problem, perhaps by taking the game completely digital, personally, I don't have much faith that Wizards could completely reinvent the booster pack model it has been using for 25 years and be successful