Cascade had been a powerful deck archetype in Modern for over a decade at that point, with players using three-mana Cascade cards like Violent Outburst and Ardent Plea to cast Living End and Crashing Footfalls for free
As for the Gandalf creature, he's a 2/3 that gets a +1/+1 counter until the end of the turn whenever you cast a noncreature spell
How many creatures should be in a Magic: The Gathering deck
For learning about MTG oddities and rarities check out: A note on nomenclature from the creator of this website Over the course of collecting Magic the Gathering misprints I have found there to be a wide range in the words used to describe errors and their perceived names
After all, it introduced the Fusion Strike battle style that shook the meta and gave players more creative ways to approach deck building and competitive play
Quite simply, Windriddle Palaces is the most fun you are going to have in a plane, and I havent had any card stick more often than it, because its essentially fair, interesting, and intriguing