It also allowed you to play a bunch of great silver bullets in your maindeck for just the right times, making it very difficult to play against
When you have situations where they will not be getting the chance to usefully replay the card in question Boomerang is comically better than Vindicate, one less mana, one less colour, instant speed and not even triggering any "when this dies" effects
As 99.9% of the cards in this game are different, the dialogue, trades and text in the game have also been altered to reflect that difference
Green ramp usually want to skip past the midgame stuff and go right into dominating the game with top end juice
Its made me want to dive in and give it another go. Well, being able to play with your own cards would be as good a reason as any
Beginner Friendliness Most players understand the concept of playing Lands for the turn to increase how much Mana they have available