They often have high power and toughness balanced by a high casting cost
They can scale well into the late game too, when players are running out of cards and casting fewer spells
It surveils, which helps out graveyard decks
The nine cards that refer to playing for ante. The seven cards banned by WotC as racially or culturally offensive. Ancestral Recall Balance Black Lotus Channel Chaos Orb Dockside Extortionist Emrakul, the Aeons Torn Erayo, Soratami Ascendant Falling Star Fastbond Flash Golos, Tireless Pilgrim Griselbrand Hullbreacher Iona, Shield of Emeria Jeweled Lotus Karakas Leovold, Emissary of Trest Library of Alexandria Limited Resources Lutri, the Spellchaser (banned as a companion, legal for regular gameplay and as a commander) Mana Crypt Mox Emerald Mox Jet Mox Pearl Mox Ruby Mox Sapphire Nadu, Winged Wisdom Paradox Engine Primeval Titan Prophet of Kruphix Recurring Nightmare Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary Shahrazad Sundering Titan Sylvan Primordial Time Vault Time Walk Tinker Tolarian Academy Trade Secrets Upheaval Yawgmoths Bargain Legacy Banned Cards The 25 cards with the Conspiracy type
Honorable Mention #3 - Magic 2010 Island by Fred Fields "Who's a pretty little tropical Island
The sheer volume of cards demands a way to store cards that maximizes the space available, and card boxes do that
