Vigilance, trample, lifelink When this creature leaves the battlefield, exile the top ten cards of your library
Spin Cycle In short, R&D sees mechanics as a reusable resource that we can use to enhance the game
Every format prior to it had a couple of meta-defining decks completely dominating
- Power of Chaos" and variants that share the engine of it
Phelddagrif There's something wonderfully absurd about a giant purple hippo with an anagram for a name, but there was more to it than that
It's a machine gun of might that was so dominant during its era that the card Deep Analysis jokes about it when there is a piece of a Masticore laying on the table there and it uses the flavor text, "The specimen seems to be broken," which is really using the term "broken" as very powerful, rather than non-functional