Seeing play in roughly 34% or Arcadies decks across Duel Commander, cEDH and casual Commander, low power isnt a downside to Arcadies decks, since your Commander lets you swing with your Toughness
Alpha editions of the highest quality are worth just a bit more than their Beta counterparts, but you see Beta cards come to auction more often
For more details see here, and here I don't want to comment on the correctness of this belief, but it is mentioned here: This was allowed in 2007, apparently
A Special Edition Collector Booster will run you about $34 and also only guarantees you 4 rares
This does create the question of how exactly the card came to be and why exactly the card designers would create a card that has the sole intention of forcing a draw, and also why one would play it
Previously, in cases where a card's mana value differed from the resulting spell, such as with some modal double-faced cards or cards with an Adventure, you could cast a spell with a higher mana value than the exiled card