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Clearly, there wasnt a convention in place, so we cant make any pattern out of this

Things have ramped and ramped since then, and now we have MTG Commander focused sets (Commander Masters) and pre-cons with every Standard-legal set

Finkels US Nationals winning Napster deck played a full four (detailed here ), but that was the first time you had to play with just Vampiric Tutor for selection (without even the luxury of Demonic Consultation or Demonic Tutor or whatever)

Cards are turned sideways and 'exhausted' when they're used, a term no one is going to remember (even the developers called it 'legally distinct tapped')

And thats it