With vigilance and flying, it contributes in combat while setting up big combo plays with cards like All Will Be One and The Red Terror
Because discovery is such a big part of the appeal, many players prefer lobbies that categorize games by theme, volatility, and features like expanding wilds, buybonus functionality, or cluster pays
Though silver-bordered cards are banned in Commander by default, part of the format's appeal is in allowing you to play with cards if the table agrees to it
This Gamma edition copy is even rarer - it predates Alpha, and is one of the prototype cards used to playtest the game
Phyrexian mana is that good
As you achieve minor weekly quests, such as inflicting X amount of damage or casting X number of spells of a certain color, you earn in-game gold that can be spent on slowly acquiring more booster packs, which you can open to earn a handful of randomly-generated cards