Wizards of the Coast explained its logic for distancing MTG from tribal as a term, both internally and on printed cards, earlier this year
We casual players misunderstood it because we didnt understand that ETBs (comes into play) triggers didnt re-trigger upon phase in, and that mattered because the set to follow, Visions , really started ramping up the ETB for value trend with the inclusion of perennially popular bangers like Man-o'- War, Nekrataal, Shrieking Drake, and Goblin Recruiter
It travels the plane with such reliable consistency that the saurids have built massive, arching temples across its path to celebrate and worship the ooze as it transits the plane
Avenger of Zendikar's starting 0/1 Plant tokens (or 1/2 if you choose to play your land for the turn after casting it) are dangerously frail
If you gain control of a creature "until end of turn," or if a noncreature permanent you control becomes a creature "until end of turn," it'll be a creature under your control through the entire end step
[116] A Nintendo director denied this, stating that they had no knowledge of any Pokmon named "based on the image of any particular person"