Any card revealed, including a land or an Ornithopter with 0 mana value, beats no card at all
They gain trample, haste, and annihilator 1 until end of turn
Drafting was what R&D refers to as "on rails," where once you picked your creature type, you got locked into your theme and didn't have much variance in the draft as we would have liked
Advanced Search Sets Random Syntax Blasting Station Blowfly Infestation Crawling Infestation Devastation Devastation Tide Finale of Devastation Fumulus, the Infestation Gremlin Infestation Grinding Station Herald's Horn Hour of Devastation Infestation Expert Infestation Sage Infinite Guideline Station Inflation Station Manifestation Sage Mogg Infestation Pest Infestation Salvaging Station Saproling Infestation Spider Manifestation Station Monitor Summoning Station Terisiare's Devastation Titan of Littjara Tramway Station Trigon of Infestation Uncontrolled Infestation Vile Manifestation Zombie Infestation
Obviously, time and the growth of the Internet made Wizards realize that sharing information, not withholding it, was a key part of building the community and metagame
The core strategy revolves around control and incremental advantage