With the introduction of The Walking Dead cards, which would be legal in Commander, Legacy, and Vintage, the old Nexus of Fate conversation resurfaced what are players supposed to do when a deck featuring exclusive cards becomes a big player in the competitive metagame
Ive even used elves like Birchlore Rangers to hard-cast Atraxa, which is emminently doable at seven mana
For me, returning fallen creatures is not my forte, which makes it my number ten on the list
And although some early legendary lands either dont meet the power level of today or are so powerful theyre still banned, most legendary lands do reasonably powerful things
Cards like Stoneforge Mystic work very well with good equipment, while Tinker lets you sacrifice a bad artifact to cheat Blightsteel Colossus or Bolas's Citadel into play
Instead of putting the basic lands on a separate print sheet like they do now, they mixed them in with the other cards