Lands like this also function as effective budget pieces
It also has an activated ability to draw a card and then discard a card, but that isn't the important bit of the card
The original five elder dragons were printed in the Legends MTG set: Nicol Bolas, Arcades Sabboth, Vaevictis Asmadi, Chromium, and Palladia-Mors
It's no coincidence that the two best decks from the First Chapter format each feature one of these cards
Additionally, it provides multiple options to gain extra benefit from playing your lands, especially in the form of landfall triggers
(I always imagine it like being what youd get if chess had certain edge cases where rooks could fly, bishops could teleport, or for a second, pawns were driving tanks.) Since the game is built around several thousand collectible cards, and almost every card has some additional unique ability to it one way or the other, it creates an endlessly manipulable, constantly surprising experience