Its especially important in EDH, where you need to outvalue three other players and games go really, really long
Combining this with a discount effect allows you to get those cards into play quickly
In your developing turns, the flash on it offers you an amazing level of flexibility, letting you waste your opponents mana by not letting them use removal on your turn, catching your opponent off-guard sometimes (especially if they dont realise youre on Mono-Blue), and letting you hold up countermagic whilst still threatening to develop your battlefield if you dont need to counter something
The process of converting a sheet layout into its respective color layers is known as raster image processing, or RIP for short
Unfortunately for Thurid, Magic: The Gathering isnt the mystical land of Equestria, and oh, goddammit