While not the most powerful deck available, its a fun one to use thats bound to annoy your opponents
This card was a notable competitive powerhouse upon release, featuring in both decks in the Finals of the 1998 World Championships with Brian Selden's Recurring Nightmare deck taking the top spot with two main deck Firestorms helping to clear out opposing threats
Upon death, it destroys a non-land permanent and returns a permanent from the graveyard to the battlefield
Bitterthorn, Nissas Animus Those madmen at R&D actually did it, they made a Sword of the Animist somehow better by giving it the living weapon effect
It may not be sexy, but mana matters
For a Japanese child in 1996-1997, Carddass and Topsun cards were everyday objects as commonplace as Panini stickers in America or Europe