Historically, we haven't covered much Magic on the site and when we do, it's almost always for some significant announcement and we don't have a lot of "fun" articles here for it
They mainly used Skirge Familiar with Soul Feasts to creature a near infinite card-drawing engine
Those reactive cards need to have proactive elements, so that theres a real decision you can make instead of feeling like youre being forced to wait (which would be very un-red)
You need lands to make mana to cast your spells, so not having access to a base function of the game is rage-inducing while you watch everyone else play
This was one of those cards that a lot of decks were on the edge of playing, either because they couldn't quite get threshold reliably or they didn't want to splash one of the colors, inviting them to play a high-risk but high-reward game with their mana bases that both cost them games and won them games they had little right to win
"Oops." Verhey discusses how impactful Ward has been in Magic, and he says it might be a little too powerful at the moment