No need to feel blue, there is a special showcase frame for each color's planeswalker card
So to have an even stronger version of that, I think that kind of got a lot of people excited. While it may not seem like an important part of designing a card game, Creatures does spend time crafting the story of each set, but because cards can only convey so much information through images and single lines of flavor text, its not at the forefront
Doing so, on the same card, is even more awesome
A few good ramp spells like Skyshroud Claim and Three Visits make it easy to hit the eight-land threshold
Countering activated and triggered abilities has been useful for years, and doing so in a way that makes it difficult for your opponents to interact is even stronger
And he still offers card draw, except now it scales: you can sacrifice any number of creatures during combat and draw that many cards