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Before I do, though, I want to quickly preface it with an essential Magic truism: There are no absolute statements in this game

Swiftspears aforementioned downshift to common is certainly part of it, but beyond that, haste is a powerful keyword that makes Monastery Swiftspear among the best aggressive one-drops of all time for red decks

At the time, rarity was not marked on cards and was closely linked to the demands of the printing process

Being able to ramp the best land out of the top four cards of your deck at instant speed is already very useful, but the fact that you can still draw one of them into your hand as a fall back means that you wont have a major downside (see Growth Spiral for a similar effect)