It evokes the principle of flavor power, as it establishes a legendary creature (which in theory would play a major role in some story) as the avatar of a deck
Just like Brainstorm, its not a cantrip, its a powerful card selection tool that you can cycle when things dont go well, except its cycling is actually much better than cycling
Collector Boosters contain alternate art, foil and Showcase cards from any given set, but theyre also much pricier than Play Boosters
Landcyclers changed all this, since for two generic mana you could get whatever land applied to them
When every spell you cast becomes two spells, its hard to keep up
High risk high reward here hitting $35 again on a $17 buy-in feels like cheating