If you have a way to continuously gain life, Sanguine Bond goes infinite to be able to win the entire game
One piece of the design we found that I was really personally excited by, perhaps my favourite part of the whole set, are these sagas
1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion Is A Potent Rat Ninja Creature Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion is a rat ninja that can ninjutsu into play at the cost of three generic mana and one black mana
If you cast only one half of a split card, you only consider that half's mana value while it's on the stack
It made ALL decks expensive What sticks out about Battle for Zendikar is how heavily the format is weighted towards expensive decks
The two colors are excellent at slowly, and sometimes not so slowly, gaining the upper hand, often subtly enough that less-experienced players aren't even aware of it