Lightning Bolt was especially important at PT 1, as it was the best clean answer to Black Knight, Order of the Ebon Hand, White Knight, Order of Leitbur, and so on (since both Swords to Plowshares and Terror had giant weaknesses)
When Atris enters, target opponent looks at the top three cards of your library and separates them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile
For 12 loyalty counters, which is a lot, you get to shuffle every nonland permanent an opponent controls into their library, minus one
The Eldrazi swatted at him as Sha'heel executed a series of tight spirals and let out a tangling line of rope
A year later, I then got into Legacy, where I built Blue-White Stoneblade and then eventually transitioned it into Esper Stoneblade
She wasn't invited to be in a set in the late 1990s, and her fans assume she was being blackballed