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Thats why it often appears on cards named things like Acidic Slime and Elderfang Venom

This card is made even cuter by one of the best abilities ever printed on a Magic card: squirrellink

The Early Years (19951997) Standard became an official format in 1995, but in all honesty, the format was really still under design for the next several years

Back when you could post comments on Gatherer, the top comment for years running on this card was, R&D had to be high when they designed this. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn is a flying spaghetti monster that cant be countered and has protection from spells that are more than one color

Personally, I like to think of these cards as different flavors of Coke

Its a little worse in Commander since you cant sideboard it in or play multiple copies, but protecting your team from countermagic and blue and black spells for a turn while potentially drawing a card often feels like a blowout