You can tell the top-down design here, where someone asked: If I design a card to be a moat, what would it look like? It might not be the most powerful, especially when decks dont necessarily need to attack to win, but its still cool and combines well with cards that enable flying
The card's value is bolstered by its limited print run, making it a rare find for collectors
Doing a quick bit of math, if the 57 main-set mythics I've gotten so far cost $300, this would mean that I'm paying roughly $5.26 per mythic, which would mean the remaining 27 main-set mythics would cost another $142
Eat a removal spell and it'll just have a brief stint as Temple of Power before it transforms back
And yes , there were rampant cheating accusations