Weather the Storm is a very powerful effect overall, and making your life total hard to beat can give you a chance to find another effect like one of the effects above (Breath Weapon / Drown in Sorrow, etc) to clear the board and proceed with your game plan
Each color combination has unique benefits, and whether something is considered best is up to the player and their preferred play style.
There are four main rarities (common, uncommon, rare, and mythic rare) and each one has different needs when it comes to design
There are two versions of this everyberry-loving bird in the set
Jalum Tome comes in one mana higher in cmc than the Mine, but it also requires 2 generic to draw a card, making it essentially cost 5 for that first card
The creator of Magic, Richard Garfield, would always be referred to as Richard Garfield, Ph.D whenever an article references him