MTG 's early metagame was dominated by combo decks using burn spells to kill their opponent in one turn, or stax decks with disruptive strategies to prevent their opponent from playing cards
Sure, you can only copy non-critter artifacts like Sol Ring or Ichor Wellspring, not Solemn Simulacrum, but a free ETB trigger every time and death trigger too with the sacrifice EOT
Since blue had a disproportionate number of evasion creatures compared to the other colors in a block filled with very low-powered cards, Coastal Piracy allowed the blue mage to draw multiple cards a turn in the hopes of keeping up with the white mage and his ever-growing arsenal of tutored rebels
It won't be available to be played on future turns
It was also the beginning of the celebratory Phyrexian storyline that continued through the next four sets and gave us some of the best modern cards wrapped in a wonderful story
If only we could trick the gods into interpreting worship for one of them into worship for all of them, then we could cut down on total time spent praying and get to other cult activities like ritual sacrifice and [DATA EXPUNGED]