It is one of my favorite cards as you can throw it on your favorite pack rat and pad your life total agaisnt those aggro decks or (and more often than not) you can put it on an opponent's creature and effectively pacify it for 1 Mana
So abstract and flat and yet so strongly evoking the essence of Pidgey
It was commissioned by Wizards of the Coast in mid-1998 as a "presentation" card, a template to convince Nintendo of the viability of the English-speaking market
Cards like Polluted Delta, Flooded Strand, and Scalding Tarn made mana fixing way smoother and let 3- to 5-color decks run like theyre on rails by finding lands with the right basic types, including your best dual and shock options
This is a ubiquitous term that's used across many card games to denote the area that cards go once they have been played, destroyed, or otherwise discarded
Note that packaging text says less than 1%, but the 1% stated here is correct