When someone asks if you have a specific card, you can locate it in seconds instead of rummaging through hundreds of cards
Centering (Front): 10.00 Surface (Front): 10.00 Edges (Front): 10.00 Corners (Front): 10.00 Centering (Back): 9.00 Surface (Back): 10.00 Edges (Back): 9.50 Corners (Back): 10.00
focused primarily on more monstrous designs for its creatures, the modern game has leaned heavily on more beautiful and stylish monsters, and this has led the unsettling cards to take a backseat to their more popular counterparts
Three is also a good casting cost for green creatures as it can be cast turn two off of Noble Hierarch or Birds of Paradise, providing a sixth-turn kill on its own while still packing enough punch to be effective in the late game
Today, gaining tapping and gaining 5 or 6 life for each time in Commander it's not as strong with its 40-life start, and there aren't as many of these running around to abuse the table with 4 in each deck, and there's not the obvious Elf deck power for most multiplayer tables where you usually had one, and sometimes two