Dockside Extortionist, Mana Crypt, and Jeweled Lotus owed their high price tags to their very high power levels in the popular MTG Commander format, on top of being very rare MTG cards
"Magic: The Gathering's Lord of the Rings crossover will be a complete, draftable set"
He can singlehandedly perform the likes of Circle Of Life, or l2l from his own movie, all on his own
As for the card itself
"Yes means no, and no means Annul." Anyway, one of the things that sucks about other people's Cubes (especially the holiday cube, a hypoxic, hydrocephalic abortion choking on its own umbilicus) is how interaction is horribly limited
Whenever you use one of the new bending mechanics like water, earth, fire, or air, you get to draw a card, which is one of the best things you can do in Commander