Being able to deal with opposing creatures and planeswalkers plus functioning as a mana sink makes it an easy inclusion in most colorless strategies
As odd as it sounds, from a financial perspective, the set will have much more long-term potential if it fails while it's in print because there would be fewer of the basic lands on the market, giving them the potential to end up more expensive over the long haul
Oh hey, Return the Past is an alternative to Underworld Breach in decks that like to storm off non-deterministically
The three non-artifact dudes that did make the cut are all incredibly useful
You can even get your hands on 5-pack MTG Arena promo codes and prerelease codes from other sets, along with the Magic the Gathering Foundations code
Every time you do, or if you add a +1/+1 counter to Lonis for any reason, you investigate equal to the number of counters going on him