Angel of Destiny | Illustration by Ryan Pancoast A one-shot card in MTG can take an opponent from any reasonable amount of life to dead with just one action (or sometimes the same action multiple times)
Cross-plane themes, like Elementals, let them also touch on multiple planes that they want to begin to shape (see Zendikar, for example) , while developing and highlighting for other planes
While a single use Flash artifact may not seem as inherently useful as a pair of Swiftfoot Boots, theres power in leveraging that protection in hidden information
The best ability is certainly the card draw considering how easily you should get it
If The Master of Lake-town dies at the same time that a player loses life (for example, if it dies in combat and another creature dealt combat damage to a player), you choose the order for The Master of Lake-town's two triggered abilities
Without falling into the trap of analyzing it too hard, let's take a quick look at the kind of jokes we've got in MB2