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Flexible PVC contains volatile plasticizers and emits acid when it deteriorates, lifting inks from your cards and destroying their value

You also need to have the cards to discard up front so you cannot play these on an empty hand making them frequently awful top decks

Fast forward 14 years to 2008, and Magic: The Gatherings Shards of Alara was released

For that reason, Cascade can no longer cast Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter unless the card Cascading into it has a mana value higher than seven

But making a ton of creatures is inherently a win condition once you get enough of them, and the threshold for enough can be lowered very easily with any number of finisher cards