Sure it enters tapped, but unlike a lot of utility lands we see, this one can produce colored mana so it isnt a liability for your mana base
Even as just a 9/9 keyword soup, it'd be decent, but having a Naturalize, Lightning Bolt, and, um, Bottle Gnomes on a stick is incredible
At eight mana, it destroys three, but eight mana is a massive amount to spend on any one spell
The initial idea of Historic was that players would be able to continue to play their cards after they rotated from Standard, and adding a bunch of super-pushed cards each quarter had the potential to basically function like rotation, by making cards that players already had in their collection unplayable (from a competitive perspective, at least)
Archived from the original on June 14, 2016
Instant Speed Funsies There are a number of cards here that really support doing things you wouldnt normally be able to do at instant speed, like Final-Word Phantom and Sally Sparrow, amongst others