Released in the Base Set in 1999, it helped define what a chase card looked like before the concept was even formalized
Sure, there were enough cards before now for you to make a typal deck around lizards, or bats, or frogs, or even rabbits
The result of all this was having lots of fiddling around side boarding to optimise decks which frankly got tedious
Sram, Senior Edificer: Must-Have for Artifact Decks If youre ever playing a constructed deck that is focused on Auras, Equipment, and/or Vehicles, then Sram, Senior Edificer is an auto-include
I don't know if I yet knew that Taiga existed, but I knew enough to realize I should be giving some thought to how my Kird Ape decks should look (you know, other than just playing every Lightning Bolt I owned)
Shay is the first card that can remove all of the protection abilities including Ward from opposing permanents until the end of the turn