Edited sentence: Abeyance was eventually given errata to have the effect exclude mana abilities, lowering its power level significantly.Abeyance: This card's design intent was to give white mages a solid disruption spell, particularly against permission magic.Empyrial Armor: A common white enchantment that boosted a creature's power and toughness for each card in its player's hand, the Armor dominated Limited play and helped keep "White Weenie" a popular deck until it rotated out of Type II.Firestorm: Firestorm allows a red player to deal damage to many targets at once for only one red mana, at the cost of cards in hand.Gaea's Blessing: A green cantrip that was often used by control decks to recycle their used spells.Gemstone Mine: A land that can produce any color of mana, but only three times.In essence, this discreet disruption spell was quickly recognized as a white version of the powerful and vintage restricted Time Walk when it was played on an opponent's turn.Inspired the Shadowmage Infiltrator card from Odyssey expansion set.Null Rod: A cheap artifact which renders many other artifacts in play useless, the Rod is often used defensively in Vintage tournaments to shut down powerful artifacts like Black Lotus, the Moxen, and Mindslaver.Ophidian: A common blue creature that potentially allows a player to draw an extra card per turn, a big tactical advantage.The Mine, combined with other five-color-producing mana sources, made multicolor decks very popular in 1997 and 1998.The additional ability of Gaea's Blessing to shuffle the entire graveyard back to the library made it ideal as a defense against Millstone, and later for use with Oath of Druids when Exodus came out.Today it is played in vintage 5 color Workshop decks that make use of Crucible of Worlds, negating Gemstone Mine's drawback.Unfortunately, the official wording of the card text actually prevented the target from tapping lands for mana