Elite Trainer Boxes are not the best option for a beginner
Put a stun counter on that creature.: Proliferate
Some are pretty decent, like Revitalizing Repast, while others seem outright cracked, like Strength of the Harvest
It wasnt uncommon to play with a meta deck and be paired against somebody playing Basic Yellow, only to be told that its unfair to play a real deck in beta followed by a rage quit
The gameplan of using Fetchlands, Shocklands, and Street Wraith to lower your own life total and make Deaths Shadow a deadly threat used to be very strong
(A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) A land that becomes a creature because of Avalanche Caller's activated ability will retain any other supertypes, card types, subtypes, and abilities it had