I think this is a bad Draugr Necromancer but I have been mostly keeping that opinion to myself
For example, the equipment theme didn't bring back any expensive, high quality equipment, just more of the same Loxodon Warhammer style stuff
2021-06-18 If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs
Ill-Gotten Gains The card used to be a good storm extender years ago, but has fallen out of favour in established storm decks such as ANT or TES
The Quiet Years (20002003) After the disasters that were Urza's block and Tempest block, Wizards seemed to learn their lesson and change philosophies when it came to Standard: rather than printing any crazy thing that popped into their head, they would actually try to design cards in a way that would reduce (and hopefully eliminate) the need to ban cards in Standard
From Tron in Modern to many decks in Standard, it's had a big presence in various formats, and it's been a stronger card