The shape indicates which set, or edition, that particular card was printed in, and the color indicates the rarity , as follows: Cards printed before the Exodus set in 1998 did not use colored symbols to show rarity, and many of these cards have no set symbol at all
Trample allows a creature to deal excess damage to a player or planeswalker
Throughout my career, Ive often found myself in situations where I knew nothing about what I was tasked to work on or manage
The real place this card will shine - like so many cards in the ostensibly-for-Modern Lord of the Rings set - is you guessed it, Commander
More obscurely, mechanics like Banding, where are featured on just three creatures in Limited Edition , Benalish Hero (a common), Mesa Pegasus (a common), and Timber Wolves (a rare), makes very little sense outside of the context of rarity