Theres not many effects in Magic that allow you to steal your opponents best lands, but you can here
There arent that many planeswalkers that make a real impact outside of superfriends, but this is one
Without a question, one of the mechanics that would have been overestimated in terms of its power would have been a Flicker effect
Having these creatures die and not having anything in the graveyard to reanimate hurts quite a bit, so in the early game, it is sometimes a good idea to try to discard a cheap creature like Evolved Sleeper or Faerie Vandal to Tainted Indulgence or Evangel of Synthesis so we'll have something in our graveyard to reanimate once our Puppeteers and Anointers start hitting the battlefield
If this spell was kicked, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens
But in my history of the game, P&R was svery much a mainstay, and its hard to untangle their occasional uses in foggy game memories from 20 years ago with someone who took the idea and made an entire deck around it