People arent dipping a toe in with this card, they are going full-on with the complete playset in a deck, and for a mythic, buying four at a time can really impact the supply
Legacy and Vintage are great formats, and most players would be perfectly fine with playing against opponents with some number of proxies in their decks if it meant they could play their favorite format on a regular basis
The balance between pastel background and sharp weapon detail gives the piece a graceful but unmistakably heroic presence
You typically need to buy more boosters to hit the same card
Similarly, a permanent entering the battlefield at the same time as Elesh Norn (still including Elesh Norn) won't cause abilities of permanents an opponent controls to trigger
Focus instead on rolling d20s via cards like Ancient Copper Dragon, Ancient Gold Dragon, and Delina, Wild Mage to greatly increase the odds of getting multiple tokens a roll