In the late game though, Cyclonic Rift turns into a brutal win condition: It removes everything that is neither yours nor a land, and since it's not targeted it bypasses color protection and hexproof
I don't believe Flash has ever been banned, but it's always been on the fringe as an offbeat Legacy strategy
The titular scene cards can be arranged to create the scene depicted on the boxes and are still functional playing cards
Countless Bolt effects have been printed down the years, but they are sorceries, can only hit dorks or players, cost more mana, and so forth
They are not as epic as Peer into the Abyss , but drawing cards is fun and having your hand filled with cards is extremely valuable in any Magic: The Gathering game
For 3RR, you can destroy an artifact or a land, but that's asking an awful lot