Your brain will want to read the name, look at the art or see what the card does, especially if you dont immediately recognize the card - and oh wow look at this power and toughness for its mana cost, why am I not playing this card
The point of this lesson is that in design and dating you have to take moments to step back and look at what's going on
Playing with Slivers was amazing, but the fact that to truly play them at their best, you needed access to all five colors, proved rather difficult in the old days. Enter this amazing Sliver from 2006s Time Spiral , which allowed you to turn each of your Slivers into a Birds of Paradise just what the creature type needed
We can all appreciate the protection a slab offers to your valuable card
If I was asked what qualities which define the current era of Magic: The Gathering , theres a few answers I could give