Archon of Cruelty Few creatures hit as hard on every axis as Archon of Cruelty
This is a big set with a lot of hitters spread throughout
It worked so well in conjunction with Card not found and it was so good against the very prevalent control decks that it shut out other draw cards pretty well, although even those decks would sometimes add one Card not found or Card not found, because more cards is always more cards
Fyndhorn Elves, from 1995's Ice Age expansion, is neither incredibly powerful nor incredibly valuable - its original printing has never cost more than a few dollars, and mechanically identical cards exist and only see niche play
A mana base can be simple (say, seventeen Plains in an all-white, 40-card deck) or it can be quite complex: featuring multiple colors of mana, lands with unusual abilities, and indirect methods of making mana (via artifacts, creatures, or spells)
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