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It's not just gameplay utility that makes these cards costly -- it's the difficulty of finding physical copies of those cards, hence players' constant demands for reprints in Masters sets and even Commander deck cycles

Shocklands were cemented as a Ravnica thing (ironically, since they were given plane-agnostic names to make them easily reprintable outside Ravnican contexts) and the post-aughts Commander boom meant players were excited for a new round of guild legends

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It also comes with a free reanimate, so its an enabler and payoff for the graveyard decks in one card