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Card #c254IR // #c254Synthesis

Featured crawlers always gained billions of views and millions of followers right out the gate.

— In our words · Source: Dungeon Crawler Carl (Matt Dinniman)

[Use when]

Use when attention economies pretend merit while running a featured queue.

[Why it matters]

Visibility is allocated, not earned — featured status is the real first loot drop.

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