The card is brand new, but due to the way they are packaged by McDonalds, some of the cards have slight imperfections meaning we cannot guarantee that they will be mint / near mint condition
Ritual cards like this open the door to all kinds of nonsense combos, which is really what Timeless is for
Do you include Alpha/Beta/Unlimited sets
But providing unrivaled card filtering, being extremely hard to remove due to its tuck myself into the library ability, and its potential for infinite combos that let you draw your whole deck (with Mystic Forge and Foundry Inspector, for example) all make it one of the coolest artifacts you can mess around with
However, some first edition listings approach $1,200, as unlimited copies in NM condition have sold for $600.
We may not know that they're out there because they look like "in progress" decks to EDHREC's deck scrapers, but there are definitely folks out there squeezing 120 cards into a deckbox because they want to get a bit blink happy