Its vital to note that part of the power comes from snowballing instants and sorceries that make tokens: A small Awaken the Woods enables a large Gelatinous Genesis, which in turn makes a larger Sylvan Offering, and so on
#2: Demonic Tutor Yeah, it turns out, finding whatever card you want for just two mana is a little too much
The MTG Spider-Man Cards Emulate the Feel of the Web-Slinger Time To Swing Into Exile The Spider-Man cards bring all kinds of interesting mechanics into Magic: The Gathering
We have cards like Tormenting Voice and Magmatic Insight in red, but Im not quite sure this card can get a big enough discount early enough to want to include it in a deck in Standard
It only takes two Mercenary tokens to pump Angelic Sell-Sword to the desired stats, something easy to accomplish since the kind of creature that enters the battlefield doesn't even need to be an outlaw
So while I think that people are overrating the scarcity of cards in the Revised -and-later era of Magic, these ancient collectors items are completely detached from the rest of the market and should be treated as such