The Water type deals extra damage to the popular Fire and Fighting types but can be weak to Lightning, Grass, Fighting, or Metal
The transforming cards and Saga creatures open the door for all kinds of amazing uses of the Final Fantasy universe in Magic: The Gathering
Playtest cards are not carefully balanced and often use basic to extravagant effects , meaning the power level between them varies greatly
using a card like Jace, the Mind Sculptor to put a Time Warp or other extra turn spell on top of your library turn after turn offers infinite turns
Gnomeball Machine, Gnome-Made Engine, By Gnome Means, and one version of Very Cryptic Command can all generate Gnome tokens
The Beetle is great to connive away in blue-black, since it has a graveyard ability, but that graveyard ability is also significantly useful to modify creatures in white-blue