If you play it on Turn 1, your opponent either spends a removal spell on your one-mana 1/1, which pretty much guarantees youre trading up, or you get to untap and ramp into 4 available mana on Turn 3
It does so later into the game, which is when you need fixing the least
MTG Final Fantasy decks can have plenty of options within the set for equipment cards, too
Wretched Throng being an actual Squadron Hawk on death might be too much, but what if it were an Oculus instead
This means that the meta has largely been the same since the game came out, with trainers figuring out the best strategies and deck builds with the current cards
Chart shows the price of Spinarak #102 at the end of each month going back as long as we have tracked the item.