Both cards allow a monoblue deck access to Lightning Bolt, but the Archive at least provides the red mana you need to cast it
Therefore, this card was almost certainly not printed before the release of Base Set
Arixmethes switches between mana ramp and attacker modes, tapping for two mana while difficult to remove
The most expensive English card, a perfect grade, first-edition Charizard from the original 1998 Base Set , was auctioned for $420,000 in March 2022
You can draw, scry, exile, destroy, and do all kinds of other things at sorcery speed or instant speed, but countering spells has to be at instant speed because it interacts with the stack
24 Spells Mox Diamond Land Tax Doomed Traveller Mother of Runes Path to Exile Swords to Plowshares Skullclamp Gather the Townsfolk Knight of the White Orchid Bitterblossom Stoneforge Mystic Precinct Captain Raise the Alaram Lingering Souls Spectral Procession Vindicate Sword of Feast and Famine Sorin, Lord of Innistrad Ajani Goldmane Hero of Bladehold Sublime Archangel Elspeth, Knight-Errant Elspeth Tirrel Mikeaus the Lunarch 16 Lands Scrubland Marsh Flats Caves of Koilos Isolated Chapel Godless Shrine Windbrisk Heights Karakas Swamp 8 Plains So, as with all mid-range decks it has lots of familiar high powered spells that for the most part are just dandy without any real support