Kiki-Jiki is notorious for being part of two-card combos that can flood the board with infinite (and hasty) threats
The +1/+1 counters a creature gains from its renowned ability arent linked to being renowned, so messing with those counters wont cause the creature to lose its renowned status
Anytime you attack with any creature, you get to exile the top cards of your library until you exile a nonland card, putting three time counters on it, and give it suspend
Either way, for only two mana the Verdict allowed its caster to get a card ahead, and a second copy or other additional discard spell can apply tremendous pressure as early as the third turn
Part of adapting to Play Boosters included making less unusable commons in Draft, which made the fifteenth card less necessary
For instance: The 151 Expansion includes a gold Mew ex