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Both can protect from exile removal on your creatures, too, which is nice to have

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At the beginning of your end step, if a player controls no creatures, sacrifice Sothera, then put a creature card exiled with it onto the battlefield under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it

Even if Takenuma was a relatively bad mill spell, the fact you can play the first copy over a basic Swamp at almost no penalty to your manabase would get it into tons of lists

This card is called a Bromide card

The presence of the small "1st Edition" stamp below the artwork is crucial, as it distinguishes this much rarer and more sought-after version from unlimited print runs