Without falling into the trap of analyzing it too hard, let's take a quick look at the kind of jokes we've got in MB2
If The Master of Lake-town dies at the same time that a player loses life (for example, if it dies in combat and another creature dealt combat damage to a player), you choose the order for The Master of Lake-town's two triggered abilities
Cross-plane themes, like Elementals, let them also touch on multiple planes that they want to begin to shape (see Zendikar, for example) , while developing and highlighting for other planes
One more card for my junk cube idea
Control decks usually operate on this axis of getting to a point where you have a bunch of lands in play and you're doing multiple powerful things that will draw you ahead of your opponent before they can do anything to you
Related First given out in 2007 during Diamond and Pearl for promos, the STAFF stamped cards were typically given to stores and staff at events