Combine that with Gift of Strands, a new enchantment with flash that makes your creature bigger, and you could be ramping pretty nicely
Giving all your Dinosaur spells an alternate casting cost of two generic and one red lets you sneak in some early damage with a small Dinosaur, only to turn around a drop a seven or eight mana one, possibly as early as turn three
It can produce multiple mana of different colors in a single tap, and in multi-color decks it frequently produces three to five mana per activation
Rhystic Study is the most famous of these, but it has developed a bit of a reputation among players for being tedious and frustrating
[38] Creatures of the same type often synergize well with each other, causing players to build decks based entirely on one type of creature
Of course, it can simply fuel strategies that need cards in the graveyard, like Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger