If you had read about the mechanic and realized that there's power with not only arranging the top of your deck but also putting cards into your graveyard as opposed to the bottom of your library (essentially out of reach since there are very few playable tutors in Standard at this moment), you know immediately that Surveil is strong, pushed, or both
Well, Commander does it a little better in the form of Reconnaissance Mission
you lose out on some equipment support, but it gets access to colored equipment like Mask of Griselbrand
Its a lot easier to get working to kill a player than other similar effects
This would lead to the creation of a new keyword action, behold, when we returned to Tarkir years later
A huge leap in price over the number two card, its an incredible amount