Lands often have no use late game in limited, so sacrificing a couple to give yourself a few extra cards never hurt, especially when the additional costs involved "tap" and not "spend mana"
FINAL FANTASY IV The kingdom of Baron continues its conquest of neighboring nations with the unsurpassed might of its airship squadrons
The restriction is the only real drawback, but at 2 mana, copying a huge threat with flying feels closer to cheating than a downside
If you target both a player and a creature as you activate the ability, and one of the targets is illegal as the ability resolves, Dragonspark Reactor will deal damage to the remaining legal target
Even Fang and Vanille, who are in the uncommon slot, can come in this treatment
Hopefully, dinosaurs serve as a model for how Magic can introduce creature types and give them the support they need to be effective