It ramps you while essentially gaining you a bunch of life by being a great blocker
In a format with Delver at the helm, resolving your 4 mana spell that has no immediate impact and requires you to resolve future expensive spells like It also does not synergize well with the current builds of Moon Stompy and their aggressive slants, and is better served in Stompy strategies that are more focused on defense, combo, or mana generation
The Water Crystal While The Fire Crystal is very versatile in Red strategies, The Water Crystal wont go in every Blue deck
Use counterspells Protection is also vulnerable to counterspells as the ability only applies while the card is in play, not on the stack
Even on Magic Arena, a select few Alchemy cards conjure the cards to give you a chance to play a card like Tropical Island through Shoreline Scout, without the dual land becoming legal in Timeless
Some of these cards are still technically legal in specific formats, but others are so bad that theyve been removed from all sanctioned tournaments, regardless of format