Control decks love it because being instant means it often effectively costs you nothing, whenever they don't make much of a play you can freely Opt
Mox Sapphire First Printed: 1993-AUG Banned: The five coloured Moxen were originally banned for poor optics, rather than power level
Darksteel Colossus 5 Only better than Blightsteel in that it works towards the same win condition as your other dorks and so this can finish someone off or get them in range such than something else will finish them off
Its the only card to say ILLUSTRATOR at the top of the card, and the only to have a pen as its icon in the bottom right
The presence of a fast threat on board means your opponent is more likely to have to play in to the Land Tax immediately to develop their own game plan, and the removal in hand should provide a nice answer to any other aggressive decks that would only need to subsist on one or two mana
[84] thus, Pocket Monsters was initially planned as a small, compact game, based primarily around Tajiri's core idea of exchanging