The Herald will keep you alive once you would lose the game, while also preventing your opponent from winning the game
Whatever the best or most crucial land in your deck is, Crop Rotation will find that for you, and the land it puts in the graveyard is usually relevant too
If a card copied by one of the tokens had any "when [this permanent] enters the battlefield" abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it's created
They also feature alternate and usually very beautiful artwork
For example, if the creature card returned by Defossilize is somehow not a creature once it's on the battlefield, it can still explore
Furthermore, it also can negate the effect of an opponent's monster and take control of it once per turn by detaching a material from it