Islands have quite diverse art since vast bodies of water often sneak into the art rather than literal islands, but even the rocks in the sea have great techniques behind them
Modern Horizons 3 was fine but grossly overhyped for what they should have been
Hauntwoods Shrieker A 3/3 that attacks and manifests dread potentially every turn reminds me of Whisperwood Elemental
There are cards that trigger other special abilities whenever you sacrifice a land (like making extra creatures to fill up your board) and cards with various Landfall abilities that do cool things whenever you play a land (like getting an extra combat step)
While you can easily create an instant board of 1/1s on an opponents end step to kill the table, getting access to any number of infinite resources from this spot is trivial
Still, it's only better than DissipateDissipate when you're countering something with the x-value being 1, and Dissipate is only played in 18,398 decks itself