Its a hilarious mash-up of sports memorabilia and Magic history, which makes this one of the quirkiest Secret Lairs ever
Despite being a reprint of Alpha, Beta's minor changes, such as adjusted card text and art updates, made it distinctive
Death Clouds a nasty card thats only used by two types of players: those who wish to watch the world burn, and Tergrid, God of Fright players, who also incidentally love to watch the world burn
You can pay each individual squad cost as many times as youd like if you somehow cast a creature spell with multiple instances of squad, but the overall result will be the same
The card is a bit clunkily worded, but in essence, it basically splits each player's creatures into two sides of the battlefield (or the "river")
So, with that realization came the introduction of ability words --italicized words that group similar abilities thematically without carrying independent rules meaning