Sometimes a card type just doesn't work in Magic: The Gathering. The game's cycle of lace cards were among of them.
Magic: The Gathering almost had a mechanic where you were allowed to bring in very old cards to play in newer matches. And everything was nearly broken.
Magic Untapped takes a look back at Time Spiral, a set that's focused largely on celebrating Magic: The Gathering's past.
In the early days of Magic: The Gathering, there was a curious running gag that kept popping in each year before finally becoming a reality years later.
One mechanic in Magic history was so broken that Wizards of the Coast named an entire scale of game mechanics after it.