Mono-Blue decks used to need early creatures that already had flying or unblockable
Animate Dead Another card on the Eighth Edition wish list was "a basic re-animator spell"
Strong Back What if I told you you'd be paid a day's wages in casting one spell
In the fourth game, Lily was beating him badly and asked if he wanted to concede, as he had no possible way to win
There are a few decks that actual turn this rule into an exploitable advantage, using it as a free discard outlet to pitch giant creature cards to Reanimate next turn or a Dredge card such as Golgari Grave-Troll for subsequent self-milling, but in what I would call fair decks, this maximum hand size rule is not nice, especially when you are mana-screwed
Its quite a situational card, but in a deck that features, say, a Magneton that generates a lot of energy very quickly, it can definitely have its uses