Swans of Bryn Argol are highly unusual and crop up mostly as a way to draw cards rather than as a threat however it ends up winning a reasonable number of games simply by being a fairly big evasive monster that is hard to stop
When you open Phyrexian treatment Urabrask, he appears with his regular art
The artist nailed the 'many colors' part of the name, making the art pop much more than the original's dark and muted color palette
As such, the only card from the year that actually feels broken to me is Lin Sivvi, which might not look like much today but was more or less a game-breaking card back in 2000
Sets would have their normal archetypes, but we started exploring the idea of creating individual cards that can inspire their own deck archetype if you draft one early
Giratina's Poke-Body Invisible Tentacles is a really good Poke-Body it says that every time your opponent tries to attack they have to discard a card from their hand before doing the move, and if they can't discard a card they can't do the move