You can usually force the issue with something like Blasphemous Act or Star of Extinction, but simply controlling a creature like Spitemare, Brash Taunter, or Phyrexian Vindicator stops your opponent in their tracks
These weren't the only Secret Rares during that era, as Golden Trainer cards featured throughout the whole block and early sets included Golden Energy cards
Printed in the game's early Alpha and Beta sets, this blue instant spell allows a player to draw three cards at the cost of just one blue mana
(I always imagine it like being what youd get if chess had certain edge cases where rooks could fly, bishops could teleport, or for a second, pawns were driving tanks.) Since the game is built around several thousand collectible cards, and almost every card has some additional unique ability to it one way or the other, it creates an endlessly manipulable, constantly surprising experience
The current price is probably just an artifact of preorder prices
Flash Photography Between flash and its ability to copy any permanent, Flash Photography is an intriguing Clone variant with untapped potential
