We know how dominant Pod is in casual, Highlander and Commander where you can tutor up the best thing for the situation
Its unique design features a gold outline around Charizard, making it look like it's shining
A competitive player will deem a card valuable if its useful for deck-building, has strong/useful moves, and good synergy (aka works well) with their other cards
A lot of staple blue Commanders like Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator have evasion built in, which makes it easy to treat this as a two mana draw three in most cases
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With Pain Lands, I think they wanted to avoid the landwalking/spell interaction issues that would come with making new Dual Lands that were Forest/Mountains and shit