A 2/1 body for 3 is far from a good tempo play but it is a whole lot better than casting a Compulsive Research in terms of tempo
The card is very popular in Commander Landfall decks, owing to its scaling stats and Badger-production capabilities
It is estimated that about 500 million cards of the set were produced, which fully eliminated the distribution problems of earlier sets
Unlike other Universes Beyond releases, Tales of Middle-earth will be legal in MTG 's highly competitive Modern format, as well as in Commander and MTG 's Eternal formats
In fact, while you get to look at three, after casting it you have the same number of cards in your hand as before
But some Common cards were only printed once on the Common sheets, like the odd Mountain mentioned earlier