With at least two Energy cards in the discard pile, it only needs a single move to set up a consistent stream of 40 damage
Legends like Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut who turns all your creatures into 5/3 Juggernauts, or the new variant of everyones favorite Phyrexian Angel, Atraxa, Grand Unifier, which gives us a Niv-Mizzet Reborn effect that looks at cards types instead of colors
In fact, I think Hanweir Battlements with only two lines of text would prove to be a powerful Standard staple
So most of us had our starter decks and things (including myself), but it was sort of just another fad in comparison to Pokemon and it did not sustain itself nearly as strongly or for as long either
The Messi card being Ultra Mint in every way except centering is still a strange outcome as a Mint 9
Its just itching to be broken by something