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No one was forced to anticipate the pace of the game or what plays were most probable

Daniel and his team knocked this out of the park

Well, its a 2/2 for 1RR, which isnt the worst rate, but more importantly, when it enters it allows you to do some looting by discarding two cards and drawing two cards, and then for each nonland card discarded, you create two 1/1 Elemental creature tokens

The mana base is also pretty janky

This is actually a part of the reason another card from another deck was mentioned by several people: While I did famously lose my semifinal match at Pro Tour Dragons of Tarkir after casting this card, it was wildly unlikely