Banding lasted from 1993 until the release of Weatherlight in 1997
If you have Grave Pact in play then Thraximundar is going to get very big very quickly
If this ability triggers while you are at 10 or less life and Cecil survives, it flips over into a 4/4 lifelinker, which is quite the deal for 1 mana
This helps to even out the experience across a population so that the rate is consistent, rather than having one lucky guy pull 12 alt arts from a single case
While the image of the card made me recall how Sydri put Caltrops on the map for a few months, the possibilities presented by the card never lived up to the hype
Jump to: Our Top Picks for MTG Cards To try and diversify this list, I ran cards through a bunch of different criteria formats, raw power, historical value, or collectors value and tried not to be too redundant