Appropriately enough, there are some very flavorful decks possible with Ragost at the helm
While the set doesnt feature a ton of overly expensive cards, there are a handful of cards with some decent value to them
(If it annoys you that Pact of Negation can target creature spells when Negate and Force cannot, I sympathize Pact unfortunately predates Negate, which messes up this neat bit of Magic taxonomy.) Force of Negation is effectively a compromise with players who begged for free counterspells to hamper the ultra-aggressive combo decks in Modern
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The Bounce Lands Well, they are two lands, in one card which somewhat helps you not getting too mana screwed
Wider playing cards had advantages: it was harder to cheat and, if packs were unavailable, dog-eared cards could be trimmed smaller