you're free now. make your own rules. forget about engagement. craft experiences heretofore unknown to you. topple your old gods and masters
President Lyndon B Johnson owned a car that could turn into a boat if you drove it into the water. And then he would invite world leaders to his Texas estate, and invite them on a nice pleasant joyride in his car around the estate.
And then he'd pretend to lose control of the vehicle and scream out "OH GOD I CAN'T STOP IT" as he drove right into the lake.
if you need 4 apples to make any points out of them, the first apple is meaningless and you don't value it highly. You might pick it up if it's free.
thing is if you have three apples, that fourth apple means a LOT.
And then, the mechanism of set collection not only gives you ideas for how YOU should play, but it encourages how other people should see what you're playing. If the game means you have your sets visible, and you have three apples, in say, a draft, how likely is it, you think, that another player is goign to give you another apple?
Sets don't even need to have the same relationship: A poker game, for example, isn't about collecting all the fours, for example, but if you have three fours, that could be pretty good. On the other hand each of those fours is also part of sets like full houses and straights, and the competing demands of each type deform very quickly.
And this holds if sets are large or small or highly variable. You can do so much with set collection by just changing the values within the sets. It's a highly flexible toolset, and any given experience of it can be at best, one version and you should try to broaden your reading list for them.
From Captain Marvel #28 (1973), script, pencils and colors by Jim Starlin, inks by Dan Green, letters by Tom Orzechowski