You now can block and trade with any size of creature, swing into any defense and kill something, or attack and strip out a card from a hand and make a 2/2 Zombie dork
(This was written out at the time, as "haste" wasn't yet a keyword.) I loved Concordant Crossroads, so when I finally came to Wizards and had the chance to start making cards, I pushed to get some cards that granted all your creatures haste
The most common of these are associated with basic land types
Why confine ourselves to the pleasures of mortal flesh? it reads underneath an image of Gale naked and gazing lovingly into the camera
This article looks at how counters work in MTG, the best cards that use counters, what to use as counter markers, and finally an incredible counter deck that causes your opponent to lose after only taking 10 damage
In combination with the previous Shock Lands, this allows decks to have incredibly consistent mana bases, as a blue Fetch Land can search up any Shock Land that has the basic land type Island