Here are the MTG releases in the pipeline: MTG core sets Magic: The Gathering core sets offered a basic collection of popular cards to help players start building their decks with tournament-legal MTG cards
The self-mill aspect is nice but since you have to target something to cast it, this card could be very dead in hand if there's nothing to target, and also kind of clunky removal stapled onto it
11 Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter On the surface, Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter might look like a token deck, and at its core, it is
Some likely prefer their foils to be cleaner and dateless for purely aesthetic reasons
Felidar Sovereign Felidar Sovereign requires you to have 40 life at the beginning of your upkeep to win, and hey, thats your starting life in EDH
Aluren decks made extensive use of it because they could fetch any of the combo pieces other than Aluren itself, and some versions used Academy Rector allowing them to get Aluren as well