As soon as one player breaks ranks and refuses to pay their taxes, everyone else follows suit, leading to lots of lovely card draw for you
The flavour text hints that the land spirit/goddess Gaea was quite angry that the land of Argoth was utterly destroyed
It also provides itself with one mana of any colour
Yes, there are a bunch of decks with Thragtusk, but theyre hardly Thragtusk decks. And some of the decks without Thragtusk are the ones that have done the best recently, which ought to suggest that the sky-is-falling cries about how Thragtusk is somehow dominating the format are without much merit
I believe if new decks are to going to rise in the tiers of the RotF meta, they will be built around these engines, so before you simply bow to our active draw overlords, explore what being passive may net you!
It is has a reasonable casting cost, and while being a creature makes it susceptible to removal, it does have Ward 2 on it