Opening with this card makes you feel super safe
While the base version can be obtained very cheaply despite being mythic, the same could not be said for the showcase textured foiled, which is one of the highest-value cards in the entire Assassin's Creed set
If you just paid some life and named two colors when you played a fetchland, and that land tapped for mana of those two colors for the rest of the game, theyd be better than all the other lands in Modern, but on top of that, they trigger landfall twice, count toward delirium, trigger revolt, allow you to shuffle your deck if you need to, and interact with a variety of other mechanics, as well as marginally thinning your deck. Fetchlands are fantastic, and were allowed to play up to 40 of them, but even though people play twenty to 24 lands, they rarely play more than twelve fetchlands
Casting it won't oftern win the game (though it might), but think about the times that Eagles of the North would've been land number seven or eight instead, and it starts to make sense why these LotR landcyclers are so good