Well, normally I'd go on a whole diatribe about how this particular one-mana artifact has been banned in almost every format it's ever been legal in, but those particular bans for Sensei's Divining TopSensei's Divining Top were mostly about play and time issues, not its raw power
Lots of buzz
Decks can contain Characters that you use to battle, Events that activate immediate effects, and Stages that give you persistent abilities each turn
After resisting so many of Magic: The Gatherings Secret Lair drops, they went and contracted horror mangaka Junji Ito to illustrate a set of four cards in his famously unsettling style
I even got to go hands-on and play a round with a few folk from developer Wizards of the Coast, and the result of this unexpected tie-in is a strange but surprisingly compelling mix of a multiplayer Magic match and a family board game night
The first is strong as you are tossing on two abilities and likely a counter onto a dork, and the next is a drain ability if you have a Vampire you want to give up for the cause of killing a dork or finish off a planeswalker you just attacked into