are two of the most impactful cards from Reign of Jafar, bringing Amethyst/Emerald decks back into tournament top cuts
The Land card is also Traditional Foil in 20% of boosters
Use your support characters to add damage while also granting full immunity to damage, and you are able to much more easily protect your characters through those early turns that are so vital to the success of hyper aggro builds like this
So much value that Snapcaster Mage is routinely seen in Magic's most competitive and expensive formats
A 6 mana 2/2 is normally an awful rate, but nuking all artifacts and enchantments, then getting a +1/+1 counter for each adds up extremely fast
While others were amassing their forces, getting combos going, and throwing horrifically powerful beasts at each other, I dutifully worked away at the quest list so no one saw my most powerful move coming an onslaught of Blitzballs from a Walking Ballista