Does it enable a clean two-for-one
You dont know exactly what youll get, but its going to be something good for sure, especially when X=7 or higher
Replacement effects that care about damage from a red source don't apply to it
For example, Giant Growth is a fine Limited card, while Healing Salve is unplayable, and the rest are absolute Constructed staples, with Ancestral Recall being part of Magic's famous Power Nine
Specifically, well be looking at the priciest non-variant cards from Set and Draft boosters
Theres been no shortage of discussion about how to get the most mileage out of Serra Paragon, but my personal favorites have been playing it alongside Sword of Forge and Frontier as a way to play an extra land out of my graveyard in the post-combat main phase or as a way to reuse valuable lands such as Wasteland that sacrifice themselves to activate abilities