Often overlooked, Liliana, Deaths Majesty helps the player to fill the graveyard with milled cards to put on the field later, and can quickly create zombies to control the battlefield
Finally, the black bordered cards are all legal sets after 2000 as well as Alpha and Beta
Both effects work with each other, and in fact, you will most likely need to play Present Arms first before the creature's baseline effect can do anything
Traditional fields are framed here by a cloudy sky detailed with clouds, and grass with wildflowers in the foreground
This card has two strikes against it: it costs triple blue to cast (just like cousin bombs Arcanis and Future Sight from this block) and blue is generally a weak color in Onslaught/Legions/Scourge
These kinds of cycles are important (if highly situational) for flavour and gameplay, but all I can really comment is the art -- I do like the elaborate 'real beetle' art of Black Scarab and the much fancier Blue Scarab