In particular, what (vocal) Explorer players want are the 30-ish or so cards that would make pretty much all top-tier Pioneer decks playable on Arena
Gwen Stacy / Ghost-Spider Gwen Stacy is as close to an Elvish Visionary we'll see in red, but that's not the reason this card is ranked so close to the payoffs
Additionally, collector numbers for ripple foil tokens with the MH3 set code as well as the front and back side order in which tokens appear differ in Tricky Terrain Collector's Edition, where tokens appear as follows: 1 Marit Lage // Sand Warrior token 1 Ape // Plant token 1 Boar // Forest Dryad token 1 Beast (Green 4/4) // Copy token 1 Beast (Green 3/3) // Insect token 1 Zombie // Elephant token 1 Hydra // Boar token 1 Plant // Zombie token 1 Elephant // Beast (Green 4/4) token 1 Forest Dryad // Emblem (Vivien Reid) token See the tokens and emblem from Tricky Terrain and Tricky Terrain Collector's Edition (tokens and emblem) in the Modern Horizons 3 Card Image Gallery
Despite this, the uptick in demand has been more than enough to cause a price spike
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan and the supplemental product released alongside it feature awesome cards for generically powerful Cubes and those with specific themes
Maybe graveyards were important back then, but I still dont see this working very often
