A fast identification checklist you can keep on your phone Look at the right side of the art window, no gray bar means shadowless, a gray bar means shadowed Unlimited
We don't want to be picking up cards we know will never move, but we do want piles of the other stuff to throw into a shoebox until one day the Rules Committee decides that yeah, maybe we should give this a chance again. To better assess whats considered a reasonable banlist pickup, we need to evaluate why they were banned in the first place, and whether or not those reasons will hold ground, say, five or ten years from now
[1] You can find its evolution by searching it from your deck or drawing into it
Despite being a small set, it has some interesting cards that help spark ideas for creative deckbuilding
The catch though is that a box of Innistrad will cost you ( gulp ) several hundred $$$
This is a Simic Bird Wizard that gives creatures you control the following ability: "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, reveal the top card of your library