It's just one more mana than Gilded Lotus but this is better - it's more artifacts for those decks that care about artifacts, it's indestructible, it can tap for multiple colors of mana rather than just one, and so forth
Columbus discovered the new world without knowing he had done so, although his work was in pursuance of carefully laid plans
Wake the Past provides artifact decks with one of the few mass reanimation spells in their niche
For example, if the top two cards of your library are Brainstorm and the modal double-faced card Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter, you will end up with a modal double-faced card that has Brainstorm as one of its faces, and either Valki, God of Lies or Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter as the other face, with either face as the front (your choice)
In fact, during the release of cards, the manufacturer often makes mistakes and many Pokmon card misprints are released to official stores
It's only fitting that one of the most precious cards in a card game so steeped in Egyptian mythology references Egyptian history
