It has one of the strongest colorless ETB effects in the game, giving you protection the turn you cast it, so you get a nice advantage even if you cast this card in the late game
In the mana article, we adjusted our probability of success by increasing the number of successes in the population
As for Bust, once you hit six mana to cast - something not hard to reach in Commander at all - you can get rid of all the lands, regardless of their type
We specifically need ones which say target player so we can double them, which means we end up having to play some very expensive cards to reach the kind of redundancy we need
This amazing black artifact lets you play cards from the top of your library, and since its an artifact, you can cheat it into play with cards like Tinker or Daretti, Scrap Savant
Its fragile at first as a 1/1 for 3 mana, but once it gets big, it becomes a payoff with its ability