It lets you place an additional card from your hand into your inkwell face down and draw one card, making it perfect for quickly stacking resources to summon heavy hitters
An Alabaster Kirin for example can attack with impunity thanks to its flying, then block at will the next turn thanks to its vigilance
I want to give creatures double strike with Fireshrieker or Brass Knuckles to make sure we can get a counter on a creature and draw a card
Of course, experienced players try to play around it
The five colours on the brown backdrop, the now-outdated 'Deckmaster' logo, it's the kind of design that's recognisable even by people who don't play the game
Nowadays, we take this luxury for granted, and even look for ways to extract additional value from these types of cards in a variety of constructed formats, including Commander