If you control three or more of them, it gets a hefty stat boost and menace
IMG_2510695927 171 KB This thing is like my own personal time machine that transports me back to such a special memory, a physical mile marker in my lifes timeline
Even in Legacy, it has been tournament-winning, getting multiple uses in UB Ninjas and returning to hard counterspell status in revived Faeries decks
Instead, it seems like the Magic fanbase has just collectively woken up to this card's potential, and collectors are out buying it up in droves
after all, a deck abusing Staff of Domination, Basalt Monolith, and Rings of Brighthearth to win doesnt really need a specific commander
in multiplayer games with a longer-term build-up, it was no longer easy to build on the destruction of lands, rather on the sacrifice mechanics and their passive damage output, as well as the destruction of the opponents creatures