The more limited a card is, the harder it is to find, the more people are willing to spend on it
Toph, the First Metalbender + Blossoming Tortoise + Basalt Monolith Toph, the First Metalbender lets the cost reduction on Blossoming Tortoise count with Basalt Monolith for an easy repeatable source of
These announcements typically never reach Western regions
If you notice theres a huge glut of quality slivers at the two and three mana slot, so when there was non-cumulative redundancy in sliver abilities Id cut from the two and three mana slot in favor of comparable slivers in the other slots
Crackling Spellslinger Part of me wonders if this text was ever considered for a legendary creature, and what early testing must have been like for it to end up here
Still, its a great way to get an early look