Since storm can usually aim to be one of the fastest and most explosive decks at the table, there tends to be a bias towards effects which simply convert cards into mana or mana into cards since thats the easiest way to ensure they can chain together in whatever sequence you draw them
Once its here, its here, so reprinting it at least drives the price down (perhaps only of the reprints, which Ben Bleiweiss is going to have to explain to me someday) so that everyone who wants it can get their hands on it
(1/22/2016) The mana value of a spell doesn't change, even if it's been cast using an alternative cost (such as an awaken cost)
Planeshift Tahngarth When Michael and I were first writing down ideas for crew members, we wrote "a Hurloon Minotaur" because Hurloon Minotaur had become the de facto Wizards of the Coast mascot
There is no way to pass on that
Omnath, Locus of Creation doesnt have one landfall trigger its got three