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Just like Set Boosters, Theme Boosters may contain some of the same 20 special cards only available in a few places

A classic case of this is putting a mana elf back on top when recasting it the following turn will hurt tempo more than help it and it will do basically nothing later in the game either

Double this double that, why not go double combat

The choice is yours

They have alternate art in the borderless frame

"Color fixed" cards, of course, ended up being the timeshifted cards of the set (although White Memory Lapse was a development casualty), and they do a fantastic job of conveying alternate reality to players who've been around long enough to see the originals