BETRAYERS OF KAMIGAWA REGULAR MOL FACTORY SET

Notable cards

• Tendo Ice Bridge is a simple design that cleanly gives multiple colored mana Turn 1 without significant drawbacks for later turns.
• Shining Shoal
• Threads of Disloyalty was a popular way to fight Tarmogoyf and Dark Confidant, and in general most creature decks in early Modern and Extended.
• Hokori, Dust Drinker was Winter Orb for a new age and proved just as powerful.
• Goryo's Vengeance is a restricted Shallow Earth variant that worked with the Legendary theme of the block. It was elevated to competitive playability with the printings of powerful Legends such as Griselbrand and later Atraxa, Grand Unifier. Relatedly, Nourishing Shoal was often a part of the Griselbrand decks as gaining 15 from Autochthon Wurm represented 14 cards.
• Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni is a Ninja that can reanimate creatures as a sabotage trigger.
• Ninja of the Deep Hours is an Ophidian descendant which continues to power blue Pauper decks and had a short stint in Legacy when Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow was printed.
• Flames of the Blood Hand proved a powerful closer for aggressive decks in the standard format.
• Shuko's 0-mana equip made it ripe for combo applications, starting with the Extended Cephalid Breakfast deck up to Nadu, Winged Wisdom decades later.

Banned and restricted cards

• Umezawa's Jitte is arguably the most powerful card that has ever been included in a preconstructed deck (Rats' Nest theme deck). Its modal, mana-less ability dominates any creature matchup by making combat impossible, resulting in polarization away from conventional creature decks. It began banned in Modern's inception and remains so.
• Blazing Shoal seems like a poor combat trick and ineffectual as a Hatred effect even with the discount, given the risk of running such high-cost cards that don't even kill a player from 20. However, combining it with Infect made a one-shot kill much more reasonable as it only required a single 9- or 10-mana card. It was hence banned in Modern since September 2011 after a powerful showing at Pro Tour Return to Ravnica, the format's first Pro Tour.