Packaging: Japanese booster packs are typically slimmer, with fewer cards per pack but often better pull rates
Cards like Lagrella, the Magpie or Fiend Hunter work perfectly with ETB strategies because they temporarily exile creatures, which lets you retrigger their effects once those creatures return
If Floral Spuzzem attacks an opponent and is not blocked, then Floral Spuzzem may choose to destroy a target artifact under that opponents control and deal no damage. That second phrase there, Floral Spuzzem may choose, has become a bit of a meme and in-joke between Magic players of a certain age
I am reminded of the fable of the silver egg
For every 10 points of damage, place one damage marker on the opponent's Pokmon as a reminder
Little by little, people played with the split cards and found them a lot of fun