Thats more than double the 3.7 billion cards the company printed a year prior and well above the companys annual average of 1 billion new cards
Behind it lies a story that begins with contests in a Japanese magazine in 1997, passes through a $60,000 eBay purchase, a secret exchange in Dubai and an $80,000 gold chain
Destroying cards by default sends them to the Graveyard anyway, so having that extra phrase, "send them to the Graveyard", is not necessary
Mana abilities don't use the stack, which means that they can't be responded to
The prospect of making a lot of zombies on someone's end step is frightening and there are probably EDH decks out there that play this card
You attach an Energy or two, the starter gets knocked around by some low damage, then boom: you move that Energy and damage to the likes of a Reshiram or Zekrom