For a bit of extra red mana, you can also create a 1/1 red Goblin token with Haste anytime you could cast a sorcery
Both activities are included with regular EPCOT admission and run while supplies last
Keranos, God of Storms is a fairly expensive card, and for a reason
Animate Walls card text was edited from 21 words down to five, although it still did the same thing, Cockatrice from 24 down to 15, Control Magic from 35 down to 5, you get the idea
Lorwyn also gave us the idea of building typal themes around mechanical functions rather than just Magic colors
However, with the invention of infect in Scars of Mirrodin block, poison counters grew in reliability as something like Skithiryx would kill in three hits, and was a much bigger threat as a result