Its not uncommon to draw 3 or 4 cards throughout a game here
Brownbeard asked if he was joking
For years, there werent a lot of ways to abuse this land, but with the printing of The Gitrog Monster and Titania, Protector of Argoth and the additional redundancy that Ramnunap Excavator adds to Crucible of Worlds style land recursion, its relatively easy for a focused Commander list to negate the downside on Lotus Vale and turn it into a permanent Black Lotus level ramp spell that cant easily be dealt with
The previous owner was extremely private, and its existence was only a rumor, he continued
There are also some instances where typal coupling is used for flavor and gameplay reasons
However, just like the Persian card above, its almost certain that these particular cards arent going to be used in play at all, given that the standard variant of Houndoom is selling for around $0.1 4, while the Illustration Rare commands an average price of $25