M agic: The Gathering was originally released by Wizards of the Coast in 1993 as a head-to-head competitive game, with two players building 60-card decks filled with spells, creatures, and artifacts designed to take their opponent from 20 to zero life as quickly as possible
That said, non-nightmare and non-horror effects that put cards straight into exile from their library or effects that exile graveyards are still necessary sometimes due to a slow start, or to hamper graveyard-centered decks or self-mill decks that are looking to use their graveyard as a secondary hand
Hard to predict and even harder to play against, Embercleave was an absolute nightmare in Standard
Finally, the Reverse-Holo card, distinguished by a holographic finish on every surface except the artwork, sold for 3,640 (almost $5,000)