While life gain is only any use against the agro decks for the most part (as in you wouldn't feel compelled to play any life gain in your average deck if the field was all control and combo) it is often worth including as an alternative to lowering your curve and therefore average power level
Use these buffs to quest when its safe, and challenge up (take out more expensive characters with your cheap ones) to gain the advantage
The combination of Tuskers value in specific decks as well as the general usefulness and card advantage of the cycling ability to obtain cards cheaply, combined with the versatility of the card to swing and block in the red zone, creates a card so powerful that it almost made the top spot on todays list, and at one point in time, it was there
its evidence of an evolved speculative crowd
The last lines of text help it skirt Commander Tax by sending The Scarab God back to your hand every time it dies
15 traditional foil basic lands (with 5 featuring full art)