It's also difficult to sell a card that's the equivalent to a down payment on a house
It's a form of white card draw for decks making lots of tokens, comparable in effect to Idol of Oblivion
Emry, Lurker of the Loch arrived on the scene amid a lot of hype and took Modern by storm for a hot minute with a similar Ascendancy loop
I like the blend of finding a card for the situation and also digging into the deck to hit lands and good stuff
Those absurd figures are also an easy way to convey how we felt when we shared the excitement of combing over those cards with friends all those years ago.
(I've mentioned this before but I find it funny so I'll bring it up again Mark Gottlieb, Rules Manager, had to kill numerous cards created by Mark Gottlieb, Future Sight designer.) While I normally try to do as much hole filling as I can, I felt a particular obligation to Future Sight because the parameters for the timeshifted cards was much harsher than normal