The anime art treatments are visually enticing in this set too, and can occasionally work to bring down the price of the standard version of the card, but not always
it generally changes from match to match
In formats where you play Teleportation Circle, this munches its way through tokens
But in an official format like Vintage, it would lead to way too many problems to the point it was not worth keeping them in the format
Rare Battle Cards Invasion of Alara // Awaken the Maelstrom Flip rating: At your discretion If casted raw without using mana fixing tricks that cheat WUBRG mana, Invasion of Alara // Awaken the Maelstrom becomes pretty inefficient as it only manages to cast one of the chosen four-mana-value cards on the battlefield
The other half of the cards support the theme indirectly, introducing deserts, sandstorms, scimitars, asps and the like