Broadly speaking, Magic cards break down into one of two categories, permanents and non-permanents
You have card advantage for grindy games, lifegain against aggro, the ability to enable all your infusion cards immediately, and removal
(translated) 640234 40.1 KB It is apparent that there are multiple test variants for each card from Base Set and it makes sense since each card had to be play tested and improved for the final product
It's way too easy to make treasures for how cheap this card is, and getting to turn those into Dragons is a scary prospect
If the customers found out stores didnt receive anything until a week later, then it would kill the generated excitement at the top of the marketing tentpole
(3/19/2021) If the target spell is face down, it'll be exiled face up