were core elements of the sets they appeared in
Divine Intervention ($151) Drawing the game is something thats not often seen in Magic, and is usually the result of a strange interaction, not, as is the case with Divine Intervention, the whole point of the card
In a Golgari sacrifice deck it's a great way to make sacrifice triggers trigger
It single-handedly defined multiple control decks, with names such as Caw-Blade and Caw-Go, and other such decks with the word caw in the name
If she was inkable, I'd like her a good bit more, but I still think she is decent
For decades, it was the undisputed gold standard for mana, fixing on a creature, enabling multi-color decks of all kinds to function with consistency