Channel Channel has always been an iconic threat alongside expensive spells like Fireball, and time has only made it better
The illustration features the Surgeon of Death sitting confidently amidst a chaotic, abstract swirl of green and black room constructs, holding his massive cursed blade with a relaxed approach
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature gains flying and +1/+1
A Swamp is significantly different than creatures, but sometimes just as plentiful, and this makes Lake, a super-charged Phyrexian Tower
The specific visual effects vary from card to card and are usually thematically appropriate to it
Takeaways for selling anything physical The Pokmon card-angle is my version of this story, but you can think of this flow beyond cards