Move over Stoneforge Modern
This card also sees play in decks that require many cards in graveyards, so creatures like Necrotic Ooze and Trazyn the Infinite can do work
Since Anti-Venom grows in stats so fast, giving it lifelink gives you giant boosts of life to make it much harder to take you out through traditional means
While both were collections of alternate frames that tied together the theme of their sets, they differed from showcase frames in that they featured reprints of cards not included in the wider set
Those are pretty good odds for sandbagging a Knight of the White OrchidKnight of the White Orchid on turn three before you make your third land drop, but at that point, you're caught up if there's not another ramp deck at the table
(In addition, it allowed me to demonstrate that it was possible to make a vanilla legend that would excite some players.) Meanwhile, the oldest Magic designer of all (in terms of how many years he'd been designing both Bill Rose and Mike Elliott are older than Richard), Richard Garfield, started thinking about cool things you could do with legendary creatures