Doran, the Siege Tower The following things are all true at the same time of Doran, which if you look at nearly every other conceivable Magic card, seems impossible: It shows something about the world it belongs to, it has an intriguingly "different" mana cost and p/t, it demonstrates a never-then-before-seen ability with very few words, and finally the flavor text effortlessly ties the smile-inducing ability, the nature of the character, and its application to our real lives
We mentioned reanimating Bahamut earlier, and this is probably the best way to do that in Standard
Compared to the Amber/Amethyst deck that has multiple copies of Friends From the Other Side, as well as Part of Your World, Hades, Lord of the Underworld, and Dr
It all crescendos with the finals of the event, where all three monsters are used in a single duel with the stakes of the world resting on the outcome