Any noncreature artifact getting sacrificed will hit each opponent, which potentially makes it playable in eternal formats
Other than Richard Garfield, who wasn't working on Magic at the time and liked the innovation of the split cards, Bill and I were the only fans of the split cards at Wizards
This Arabian Nights land is banned everywhere else, and it's restricted in Vintage: only one copy per deck
Looked at another way, Oracle could even be considered the most powerful artifact of all, for it has the power to change what other cards do any time it wants
As cost reduction effectively supplies X costs with additional free mana, when it comes to casting Hydras, with the help of Animar, you'll be casting enormous monsters for very little mana
[Pokmon] was a real breakthrough, [Ledford] contends