Mana efficiency, flash, and being a blue wizard plus the whole instant-speed card advantage, utility, and power
A payoff is a card that rewards you for doing the things your deck is designed to do
Mason with booster packs attached
The downside here is that you need both cards in hand to play Lugia to your bench
Looking at the most valuable cards in the Final Fantasy x Magic: The Gathering set as of the time of writing shows that the highest-value cards are all either foil or surge foil printings, which seems to have contributed to the hyper-inflated cost of both individual Collector Booster packs (now going for $100 on the secondary market) and a Collector Booster Display Box (fetching up to $1,200)
And this is even better because you can choose to move it around, and if they kill the token or the Equipment - you still have something left behind