It shuts off if you end up with the most lands, but by then youve probably gotten your values worth, and you can still blink this permanent to find more Plains
For my money, this is a nice payoff with some big upside, but having the downsides of needing to connect without any built-in evasion plus relying on your opponent picking a good thing for you to reanimate makes this too difficult to use
They do have some shadow creatures
We can build it, with Setzer, Wandering Gambler
Because the ability to buy individual cards is so helpful, you should only ever spend these when building a specific deck
And yet, with all this reasoning that it isn't a good idea, I'm not sure if it's something worth actually caring about