See rule 901, Planechase. 706.8
Kains almost-comical ability to be forced into betraying you is delightfully woven into Magic with his card, Kain, Traitorous Dragoonwhenever Kain does damage to another player, they can choose to take control of him and he does mirrored damage to his original owner, meaning that Kain can bounce back and forth between ownership over the course of the game
Card names are important to remember because certain spells (like Cranial Extraction or Meddling Mage) actually need you to name something in order to play them
During this era, we also started creating "synergy packages." These were planned to be groups of thematic cards that would all play well together
standard parallel (not gold), trading around 1,000-3,000 Filler Commons, Uncommons, and Rares with minimal individual value The SR and SEC guaranteed slots support a baseline box value