That can fill up the hand fast, and in the right deck, that can enable the Landfall mechanic of the Zendikar Rising set or provide cards to discard in a blue/black build.
Its especially helpful to players who like dealing as much damage as possible early in the gameand the alternate, manga-inspired Zoro art featured on this Parallel card certainly doesnt hurt, either
Every Commander deck runs it
This makes it a perfect match for Mewtwo Ex, which discards two energies per turn
Chucking lands late game to the back half for an impulse draw-two is incredible
While Im far from the only person to come up with this pairing and theme, Ive made it something of a pet deck and fancy myself a bit of an expert in this field, so when Obeka, Splitter of Seconds was previewed and the community collectively went bananas, I knew that there would be people out there making some of the same mistakes I made