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
You could get comic book art or an impressionist painting
They might not be a meaningfully supported archetype in most sets, but you still find them, often as a boon for doing something simple like triggering heroic on Phalanx Leader, to juicing up a card like Ancient Animus, or just to make an aggressive deck more viable
In fact, I speak it anytime I play a Counterspell that counters and does something else bad for my opponent
Green often gets a Rabid Bite effect in new Magic sets
Lake of the Dead This Reserved List card would be an auto-include in most of my mono-black decks if not for the price tag, which was somehow $5 as recently as 2016, although it has since risen quite dramatically since then
