Up to 1 of your Leader or Character cards gains +2000 power during this battle for every returned Character
While the Earths Mightiest Emblem is the clearest example of this, its far from the only thing selling early from this drop
The second volume has different constructed themes than the first volume
Was that buying driven by speculators trying to dump crypto gains into something stable
Renegade Tactics doesn't have useful utility -- remember, you're pointing it at Zada, so your creatures can't block, not exactly useful -- but being 1 cmc makes it way better than Accelerate, which has haste but costs double the mana
There's something truly satisfying about the play pattern of dropping this card on your opponent, keeping your incubate token safe for their next turn, then transforming for two mana and beating down with a gigantic Phyrexian