The mana rocks are pretty standard
For example, control decks have no problem digging through their decks, so having one-offs won't affect them as they will be able to get to their sideboard cards easily (and this is a big reason why control decks are often so good)
Once, Chishiro had thought it the place of the kami to choose whenifa mortal should die
Magic: The Gathering 's best tribes don't just have powerful creatures to establish their board state, but also formidable non-creature spells to support them
name-a-card effects and other in-game mechanics still refer to the normal name, for instance
Giving something to another player, alongside being another slam-dunk flavor win, captured the whimsy of the genre, ended up being a very interesting political tool in multiplayer