Gitaxian Probe + Mishra's Bauble Let's put it this way: A cantrip that you can pay for with life rather than mana, and tells you what your foe's up to, is so fundamentally broken that Gitaxian Probe is banned in Modern and Legacy, and it's also restricted in Vintage, where it's no stranger to top-tier decks
Keith Adams have stated that many of the playtest decks he has found contained zero rares (and there weren't that many pre-alpha playtest decks to begin with after all)
(In the past, Ive disagreed frequently and sometimes volubly with Jesse Mason, but his blog post on the topic is one of the best Ive seen.) When Unglueds humorous follow-up Unhinged came out in 2004, full-art basic lands illustrated by John Avon, once more black-bordered to allow for regular Magic play, were part of the set
Its ability to copy both creatures and artifacts makes it especially useful in Commander, as well as Cube
Dominion tempts you with the Ring and puts a +1/+1 counter on your Ring-bearer
This raccoon bard has so many friends and is just trying to bring everyone together