Yes, we can put a story spotlight on a staple effect, but it doesn't do as good a job of drawing attention to the card
My pick: Hades - Infernal Schemer Not every rare, super rare or legendary card is a bomb
Kardur Goad Kardur, Doomscourge | Illustration by Chris Rahn Commander (1) Creatures (34) Agitator Ant Azra Oddsmaker Combustible Gearhulk Echoing Assault Flamerush Rider Frenzied Gorespawn Frenzied Saddlebrute Frontier Warmonger Garna, Bloodfist of Keld Garna, the Bloodflame Geode Rager Gonti, Lord of Luxury Gray Merchant of Asphodel Jaxis, the Troublemaker Kamber, the Plunderer Khrn the Betrayer Lagomos, Hand of Hatred Laurine, the Diversion Liliana's Standard Bearer Mahadi, Emporium Master Massacre Girl Meteor Golem Mirage Phalanx Morbid Opportunist Noxious Gearhulk Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink Overseer of the Damned Plundering Barbarian Sepulchral Primordial Shriekmaw Slaughter Specialist Solemn Simulacrum Vengeful Ancestor Xantcha, Sleeper Agent Instants (12) Bolt Bend Fast Forward Hagra Mauling Kazuul's Fury Nasty End Not Dead After All Rakdos Charm Rescue from the Underworld Supernatural Stamina Syphon Mind Undying Evil Village Rites Sorceries (4) Blood for Bones Feed the Swarm Sign in Blood Victimize Artifacts (9) Arcane Signet Fellwar Stone Golden Argosy Liquimetal Torque Mask of Memory Oblivion Stone Rakdos Signet Sol Ring Wayfarer's Bauble Enchantments (5) Curse of Opulence Curse of Disturbance Oversold Cemetery Rite of the Raging Storm Shiny Impetus Lands (35) Bojuka Bog Command Tower Exotic Orchard Foreboding Ruins Mountain x12 Myriad Landscape Path of Ancestry Rakdos Carnarium Shadowblood Ridge Smoldering Marsh Swamp x13 Witch's Cottage Listen, this is not about honor, it's Rakdos
And now we even have some LotR Ents in MTG thanks to Tales of Middle-earth
