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Mystic Remora is cheaper and costs significantly more mana from the opponent to prevent you from drawing cards, but only affects non-Creature spells and requires you to invest mana during your upkeep to keep around

While it's possible that increased scarcity is also a factor, it's also possible that the illustrations on these are more compelling than the one on 208s

In terms of MTG's color pie, black is the color that benefits from discard the most, and its usually the color that makes people discard the most too

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As well as all of this, theres an alternate frame on some cards, called the Paranormal Frame