If you clear those hurdles, Weathered Wayfarer also costs a white mana to activate, which can be at odds with other early plays youd like to make
In boosters you are guaranteed to open two rare cards and a foil card
The fact is that theres no wrong booster or product, but there is something for everybody and thats the important part
Our primary win condition is the value engine and casting our opponents win conditions
By 1995 Wizards of the Coast understood that limited play was as important as constructed, so they made sure to fill Ice Age with some reprints, some functional reprints, and some "fixed versions" of older card types
Even in the late game when opponents will have more mana to pay the tax, Ghostly Prison is an effective deterrent against token strategies that want to attack with dozens of creatures at once