Aside from the pull rates, the high demand for this set made it equally hard to find on store shelves, unless you sat around waiting to catch store restocks the moment they happened
Slamming Atraxa on most boards wins you the game outright, and you just draw a bunch of cards to make up for it if your opponent can answer it
Both Memento and Lunalight have very strong engines, and can play through boards pretty well
The Locust God Izzet decks just love drawing cards
PSA 10 examples routinely sell for impressive sums, and serious collectors who've attempted to complete the original Base Set holo lineup in top grade know precisely how challenging a mint Venusaur can be to track down
Then come the five Moxen : Mox Sapphire, Mox Jet, Mox Ruby, Mox Pearl, and Mox Emerald