As you can see McGough is really hitting the "As old as time" button quite hard here
This kind of effect is nice to have access to, but unless we find something like Phrexian Dreadnaught that asks you to build a deck around countering your own trigger, I cant imagine that youre really going to put this card in your deck if your plan is to use this side of it over 80% of the time
I particularly love that we can see such a high-up overview of this ancient world, thanks to our subject flying above it
Ichor Rats, Viral Drake, and Phyrexian Hydra are examples of infect creatures that can trigger Hand of the Praetorss ability to distribute poison counters to opponents
You prevent counter wars
Then there are the special cards, the variants, alt-arts, secret rares, golds, rainbows, galleries These are the ones the collectors are after