An Oldy But a Goody Mark Gottlieb made two cards for Unhinged that took a whole bunch of old mechanics and put them all together on two cards: one for spell mechanics (Blast from the Past) and one for creature mechanics (Old Fogey)
However, it also includes many payoffs for creatures with high power which of course, includes most dragons
GGC - Max Leaf 170 Heal 30 damage from this Pokmon
For example, many recent statistical analyses of mana bases, such as Frank Karstens article, assume a large value for (1), as a matter of practicality
It's a case of the refined and wise speaker working with an instinctual, yet sentient animal that listens and can only respond with gutteral sounds
Even some of the game's most powerful individual cards can't hope to compete