Its less efficient than Gaeas Cradle because it costs mana to activate the second ability and youre locked into a single creature type, but it can produce mana of any color and even makes colorless on an empty board
This card has diminishing returns, and is likely to perform better when used in more of a combo-style approach like Divergent Transformations
Well, yes, but actually, no
Our hand-drawn Pok-themed cards come with 6 different beloved Pok to choose from, each crafted with care and creativity
Combining shroud with islandwalk makes it a very hard to interact with a 3-turn clock against most fair blue strategies and is still generally very strong against the non-blue decks
Leaving aside the economic part of it, I think having things like Secret Lair and all these alternate art cards is a great way to showcase less conventional art while keeping the main sets visual language coherent