1 Kodama's Reach and Cultivate Sure, some decks may be designed around something else, such as Far Wanderings or Sakura-Tribe Elder abuse, but the vast majority of decks with green in them want Cultivate or Reach
Even if it wasn't objectively too good when it was banned (although it was very good), it was getting better set by set and would have almost certainly become too good eventually, as Wizards continued to print great creatures to tutor up
Mass Hysteria has many more replacements in red, but Crossroads is pretty unique for green, and therefore the decks that need this effect really want this card specifically
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The rest is, as they say, history