In my hatred rant of the card earlier, I mentioned its affect on aggro decks in the metagame
Jafar, Striking Illusionist is a prime example
She completely turns off edict effects abilities that force you to sacrifice your permanents, while also being incredibly hard to remove herself thanks to flying and hexproof
Explore lets Hakbal decks utilize a huge range of possible sub-themes with their merfolk: +1/+1 counters, landfall, self-mill and recursion, topdeck mechanics like cascade and discover, even hand-size matters and self-discard
With Blanka, I recall mashing the light punch button to rack up damage in Street Fighter
Graded cards , colloquially referred to as 'slabs', refer to any card that has been assigned a numerical grade by one of the major grading services