With the new world order pushing the power level of creatures, planeswalkers, and threats in general so hard in the last five years, getting ahead on mana and on the board is critically important, and not much does that better than a turn one mana creature
There are 24 artifacts in the deck (the same number as creatures), meaning youre likely to build quickly and start to snowball particularly with bigger artifact spells making TChalla, the Blank Panther, stronger
These special cards can appear in all boosters, and Id expect these to be really valuable due to the popularity of EDH
This version of Mana Crypt takes us back to Kaladesh for the style, which you can see both in the beautiful showcase frame, and from all the iconic red and gold filigree
My take was that Skullclamp was still relevant enough to RW tokens decks that throwing an anthem onto an Impact Tremors was actually a bit of a disadvantage
And when Jace survives, it usually means you get to cast Collected Company again