Most artifact decks up until that point were interested in making tons of mana or being some sort of broken combo or prison deck, but when Affinity was born it showed that artifacts could beat down too
Printed in the heady days of the FIRE Design power creep, you get a card which combines aggressively-costed stats with maybe the best draw-related activation this side of Griselbrand and Razaketh
Dark Depths is currently banned in Modern
Overall, the cards look a little jankier
This isnt terribly far from my preferred number, as I usually like to run 11 or 12 myself, but its crucial to keep the cards coming in decks like these that are so vulnerable to board wipes
While you won't have the same amount of cards and ready-to-play action as a starter deck, the eight packs included will give you 96 cards for about the same price it'd cost to buy individual packs to get 96 cards