Having Cycling itself also enables some desperate discard plays if your rummage spells dont line up right, which is something Adept cant do
This means if you begin building a deck for constructed play and you start with an amethyst character card you like the look of, then add an Item card from steel, you cant add an emerald card
In Set Boosters, you had the potential to get up to 6 commons, but that came at the cost of not getting additional uncommons, rares, and mythic rares
+1/+1, trample, and haste is good, but it doesnt really explain why the card is so popular
This 3-mana white creature isnt much on the battlefield, but it allows you to topdeck a creature with power 2 or less and put it into your hand