In infect decks where every draw could bring a crucial card like Blighted Agent or Inkmoth Nexus you need your cards to shuffle smoothly and the game to continue uninterrupted
Being that the Alpha set was the very first release by Wizards, the production run was extremely low
Thats because Land Destruction can still make for good games, even if they arent the kind you expect
However, there are fetchlands and cycling lands, and as such, Life from the Loam has often been something like a two-mana draw-three with selectionand the ability to rebuy it over and over
Right now, according to TCGplayer, there are four gold-stamped art cards with a market price above $10: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed (Art card #53) $16.05 Nibelheim Aflame (Art card #35) $14.02 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER (Art card #44) $10.47 Tifa, Martial Artist (Art card #52) $10.31 (this uses a stamped planeswalker symbol instead of an artist signature) Beyond those, there are another eight art cards currently above $5 (all of which contain the gold-stamped artist signature)
Focuses on suspend synergy, massive creatures, and control elements
