mtg foil cards tournament legal are prerelease MTG cards you crack at pre-release are now legal Tournament Legal? : r/magicTCG

These effectively tutor up spells that are safe from being Surgical Extractiond or otherwise removed from the game

Nadus sheer power comes from the fact that you can target it with free stuff like equipment that cost 0 to equip and draw a bunch of cards, and you can do this twice per turn for each creature you control

Equip Artifact - Equipment White Mage's Staff Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1, has "Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life," and is a Cleric in addition to its other types

The cameo is Hitchcockian, like Coppola in Apocalypse Now

Well either keep going chronologically or switch it up and go back in time