This is a powerful effect in many different archetypes
This immersive games experience lets players explore strategy, adventure, and storytelling in a thrilling card game inspired by Middle-earth
Its been massively popular in the US and Europe and can be a little hard to track down
Although land destruction was a staple for Black since the beginning, with the now out of print Sinkhole (not printed since unlimited) and Demonic Hordes (last printed in Revised), the Red/Green land destruction deck was beginning to take hold and Strip Mine was a perfect addition
She also makes spellslinger and enchantment or artifact based strategies significantly slower to pull off
If you pay its activated ability cost of seven mana, it transforms into the powerful and flexible Planeswalker, Nicol Bolas, the Arisen