It has all the good low end playability and consistency benefits but it transforms into a it of a Demonic Tutor at some point in the game and puts in some really good work
A small excerpt from our Dominaria United Predictions article : He obviously wont be as weird as my initial thoughts, but I kind of want Jared not to become the catch-all 5-color planeswalker staple that immediately kicks Atraxa off her go-to planeswalker EDH throne
4 cards are almost always common, and 3 cards are almost always uncommon, so its possible that the remaining 2 cards could also be rare
There were two creature removal spells as well, to go with the classic White Swords to Plowshares, those being Exile and Reprisal
At this point, Magic almost seems too big to fail (which is probably a good thing, considering some of the cards Wizards has printed and decisions it has made over the past couple of years), but this certainly wasn't the case in 1996