While the rider and Bazaar Trademage retained the familiar enters-the-battlefield text,Lesser Masticore and Sparkhunter Masticore opt for the cleaner but generally weaker templating of requiring the discard as a cost
Wall of Mist does a great job holding off a single Goblin Piker
It can deal with a lot of things, but it will basically never do it efficiently, and Scry 1 being tacked on isnt exciting enough for this to rise above a 2.0 It has passable stats and helps enable all of your graveyard shenanigans that youre almost guaranteed to have in Black Its important than this exile instead of letting the opponent discard, as you dont want to be helping your opponent get Descend stuff going
The second thing that I think is worth mentioning are the lands themselves
9 Enduring Innocence Mentor Of The Meek Has Seen Some Upgrades Enduring Innocence is a re-imagined Mentor of the Meek with a slew of upgrades at two major drawbacks - it can only trigger once per turn, and it only has one toughness
That means there will be representation from your favorite entry in the series, be it Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy XIII