Decks pop off sooner and sooner with every passing year, and while part of that is due to the consistency and redundancy afforded to many archetypes through the sheer quantity of new cards being printed, a lot of that is tied to the Command Zone, and what is put inside of it
At 2 mana, this is priced to be playable, and I could easily see it being reprinted in Bloomburrow
If Wizards prints more 001/001 cards in the future, the ultimate rare will eventually become more affordable as well
Defensive phase-outs like Teferis Protection also allow creatures to dodge boardwipes, edicts and other non-targeted removal, where many flicker effects simply return them to the battlefield in time to perish by the next spell you had been responding to on the stack
Unlike other infect dorks this hides behind a defense and slowly chips away at their poison count
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