This Celebi V Alternate Art is a great example of that
You also have a 72-percent chance of pulling something worth less than what you spent on it, and a 25-percent chance of getting something worth a little bit more
a football star offered $150k, which was soon bumped to $500k, then $1 million, before rising to $2 million dollars and a paella
Catching a ban to end Eldrazi Winter in Modern, the Eye restricts the cards you can play severely in exchange for an amazing mana advantage
You can also evolve a basic normally, then use Wallys on the same turn to evolve it to a stage two
The Quiet Years (20002003) After the disasters that were Urza's block and Tempest block, Wizards seemed to learn their lesson and change philosophies when it came to Standard: rather than printing any crazy thing that popped into their head, they would actually try to design cards in a way that would reduce (and hopefully eliminate) the need to ban cards in Standard