Your opponent isnt always going to have a Shark Typhoon, or even another land, so making the first Shark puts your opponent on the spot of doing the next thing
It's now a much leaner, faster format that all but demands efficiency from your spells if you want to have an impact on the game
But Mark Rosewaters elegy for the mechanic is more nuanced: I consider it a noble but failed attempt. Is there a seed of this nobility that we can utilize, especially in Commander, with some of the cards printed since then
Jeska seals no less than three of these time rifts with help from Teferi, Radha, and Multani
This can be done easily with the food tokens created by cards like Elanor Gardner, which also provides additional lands when foods are sacrificed, or Academy Manufactor, which provides a Treasure and Clue token along with every other Food token created under its owner's control
Speaking of going tall, Huatli allows us to do just that