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Both of these cards completely broke Modern entirely, and arguably continued to do so in other formats after - particularly Nadu

A creature with renew allows the player to exile it from the graveyard at sorcery speed to put some kind of counter (usually a +1/+1, but not always) on another creature

A year later, it was Deathrite Shaman-powered Ajundi and variants

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The card allows you to shift gears from being purely aggressive to biding your time, and creates interesting tension around combat rather than a simple determination of whether to use a removal spell on one creature