Even when there is a trade to be made, the amount of time spent looking up the prices, accounting for conditioning, and then ensuring that everything is matched up according to whatever fair trade price is being used, simply wears me out
Create a 1/1 red Balloon creature token with flying
Reprint sets such as Commander Anthology and Ultimate Masters are slowing reprinting some of the old token creating cards and for the first time printing the referencing tokens along with them
Such consistent creature generation works fantastically with a bunch of white cards like Goldnight Commander and Cathars' Crusade that reward you for putting creatures into play
Wizards of the Coast tried various things to make the format more appealing to more players, but their attempts largely failed, and some of them even alienated players
Snapcaster Mage is a massively popular Creature card with very few reprints that is known for its speed