Far more impactful and important to bear in mind when approaching your first game, is which bread and butter common cards other players are valuing the highest
Back in the day I used to freelance for Wizards
Number of appearances: 115 fire crystal : Inflict 600 damage to opponent
Takahashi chose the name "Tyler the Great Warrior," and the concept went straight from printing to slab, with no human hands handling the finished card during production
Unlike other cards with this effect like Renata, Called to the Hunt and Good-Fortune Unicorn, you can add counters to Arwen so your board scales in kind
These custom made cards weren't really a thing people talked about back when, but on the other hand, if Richard Garfield himself brings a deck with home-made cards to an old school tournament, who would ever decline playing against it