Not every set chases nostalgia, though
Esper Aristocrats with Bane | Commander | Abe Sargent Commander (1) 1 Bane, Lord of Darkness Creatures (38) 1 Blood Artist 1 Bloodghast 1 Body Launderer 1 Burnished Hart 1 Carrion Feeder 1 Cloudblazer 1 Corpse Knight 1 Cruel Celebrant 1 Glen Elendra Archmage 1 Grim Haruspex 1 Karmic Guide 1 Keening Banshee 1 Knight of the White Orchid 1 Kor Cartographer 1 Mentor of the Meek 1 Midnight Reaper 1 Mulldrifter 1 Ophiomancer 1 Pawn of Ulamog 1 Plaguecrafter 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods 1 Puppeteer Clique 1 Ravenous Chupacabra 1 Recurring Skeleton 1 Roil Elemental 1 Roving Harper 1 Sengir Autocrat 1 Shriekmaw 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Solitude 1 Soul of the Harvest 1 Sower of Temptation 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim 1 Venser, Shaper Savant 1 Viscera Seer 1 Woe Strider 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan 1 Zulaport Cutthroat Planeswalkers (2) 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools Spells (17) 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse 1 Citywide Bust 1 Counterspell 1 Cyclonic Rift 1 Disallow 1 Dismiss 1 Dissolve 1 Hagra Mauling 1 Insidious Will 1 Jwari Disruption 1 Malakir Rebirth 1 Negate 1 Sejiri Shelter 1 Swan Song 1 Teferi's Protection 1 Utter End 1 Wash Away Artifacts (8) 1 Arcane Signet 1 Lightning Greaves 1 Sol Ring 1 Swiftfoot Boots 1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Talisman of Hierarchy 1 Talisman of Progress 1 Thought Vessel Lands (34) 1 Arcane Sanctum 1 Ash Barrens 1 Barren Moor 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Command Tower 1 Drifting Meadow 1 Fetid Pools 1 Godless Shrine 1 Hallowed Fountain 1 High Market 1 Irrigated Farmland 1 Lonely Sandbar 1 Miren, the Moaning Well 1 Phyrexian Tower 1 Polluted Mire 1 Raffine's Tower 1 Reliquary Tower 1 Remote Isle 1 Secluded Steppe 1 Watery Grave 5 Island 4 Plains 5 Swamp And there you are
In each My First Battle set, you get two decks of cards, play mats, tokens and a Pokmon coin
Certainly there are lots of legends in the cube and that is part of why this list looks so conventional
With the increase in power level and average converted mana cost each card counts that much more and so you just cannot afford to have cards that do not help you out in other ways
Silent-Blade Oni, upon connecting for combat damage, allows us to steal and cast a spell from our opponents' hands for free
