Or you could discard an artifact/enchantment creature and draw at least two cards
If you do, draw four cards
It works as a premium threat in Cube as well, especially since it impacts the board the same turn it enters
Getting to explore is a good out to an enemy removal spell or after chump-blocking, and if you fill your deck with creatures that actually want to die, its profit on both ends
I wasn't able to track down a specific issue where this panel appears (please let me know in the comments if you do!) but there's a good chance it's from Maximum Carnage, a big storyline that spanned through all the ongoing Spider-Man comics in 1993, and saw Carnage do what he does best, spread death and havoc, this time with a makeshift "family" of superpowered maniacs
However, black mana received new importance in Magic's Vintage format with the release of Tales of Middle-earth and perhaps the most disruptive card Vintage has seen in years: Orcish Bowmasters