Torpor Orb | Illustration by Svetlin Velinov Stax cards impede your opponents development through various means , such as forcing them to sacrifice permanents, taxing them, making cards enter tapped, and simply having the text players/opponents cannot do X. Many players believe the term comes from Smokestack, a key card of the original stax list, and to some extent that's true
Whether Ob Nixilis is similarly powerful remains to be seen (fingers crossed he's not), but the fact that everyone's talking about it lends credence to the strength of this card
Grove of the Burnwillows (EOS) $7.39 Grove of the Burnwillows is a fun nod to MTGs past, as giving your opponent 1 life can be better or worse than losing 1 life yourself based on how aggressive or controlling your deck is
The line 'Iron Centipede can't be blocked' is somehow cute
This artificially created Pokmon is a clone of the mysterious and incredibly popular Mew, who is said to be the ancestor of all Pokmon