Targeted removal: Swords to Plowshares, Pongify, Beast Within, etc
It turns every enchantment spell into a card-draw engine, and the deck is packed with those
Creating a scalable army of changelings means it slots into typal strategies of almost any type, while the built-in mana ability turns those tokens into ramp
They're not basic, so effects that search for basic lands (such as the ability of a Lander token) can't find them, but they do have the appropriate land types for effects such as that of Willowrush Verge (from the Aetherdrift release)
This makes it one of the only reasonable ways for mono-red players to become the monarch in Pauper
History Early reprint policy Before the establishment of the Reserved List, Wizards attempted to maintain collector value by using the card's border color to differentiate between original printings and reprints