There is discussion on how to classify silver-bordered cards for casual play, and the Commander Format Panel has yet to address it specifically
Despite being locked into only white and colorless cards, this isn't much of a downside as most of the cards you want to play in the deck are white anyway
This is a safe and easy way to do some serious damage to your opponent, as long as they aren't running any counter spells.
This set contained 102 cards and featured drawings by Ken Sugimori, Mitsuhiro Arita, and Keiji Kinebuchi
You can still perform this combo in Legacy and Commander, and its doing more work as an answer to planeswalkers these days, too
It's a very frustrating card for some players, and gives any deck effective card draw and protecting in one package