Arabian Nights followed almost immediately after, expanding the card pool for the first time and setting the unceasing pace for the 90+ expansions and 23,000+ cards that have since followed
If a piece of equipment wont get Cloud to 7, equip it anyway just to get some draw power
It's not format-breaking or anything like that, but it does feel like a surprisingly solid budget deck
As a modern commander, its both payoff and enabler, which makes this one of the stronger land sacrifice engines since it nets you some card draw and an extra land drop
She only gets really exciting if you can Shift her out while you have 3 or more other Queens in play
That said, between ramps ubiquity in Commander, the fact that ramping one land for 2 mana has been good enough for many cards to see consistent play in the format for years, and the risk that Deep Gnome Terramancer will be a dead card is minimal at best, and Id call it a safe bet youll come out ahead far more often than not when playing this card