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Cards are used and valued both for competitive play and collecting, it all depends on the person
An overlooked and underrated card, also one of the hardest, if not the hardest card in all of magic
Part of a cycle that features the almost-as-broken Gaea's Cradle and somehow the hilariously unbroken Shivan Gorge, Tolarian Academy taps to make a mana for each artifact you control, which led to decks that would dump their entire hand of cheap artifacts, make a ton of mana by tapping and maybe untapping Tolarian Academy, and then use big card-draw spells like Windfall and Stroke of Genius to refill before eventually milling the opponent out with Stroke of Genius, potentially all on Turn 1
Introduction to Annihilation Some colors can generate huge amounts of colorless mana but don't have great removal options to sink it into
Legality depends on the tournament format -- Myr Propagator can be legal in some formats and banned or restricted in others