Its fantastic fixing and mana ramp that lets you jump from 3 mana on turn 3 to 5 on turn 4 with a guaranteed land drop
There are a ton of ways to abuse this, the cards above being just two examples
A majority of your spells are three mana or less, so youre running 34 lands and three extra mana rocks: Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Glistening Sphere
Thanks to Transport Pod, youll now be able to move characters between locations for free each turn
The drawback however is that they must be sacrificed at the beginning of your next turn
The combination of being prominently featured in the novel really helps when we choose Gandalf, for instance, because even though we had done a number of other Gandalf cards, being able to find a place in his development that we wanted to capture was key