Part of a cycle that features the almost-as-broken Gaea's Cradle and somehow the hilariously unbroken Shivan Gorge, Tolarian Academy taps to make a mana for each artifact you control, which led to decks that would dump their entire hand of cheap artifacts, make a ton of mana by tapping and maybe untapping Tolarian Academy, and then use big card-draw spells like Windfall and Stroke of Genius to refill before eventually milling the opponent out with Stroke of Genius, potentially all on Turn 1
Often we have to rely on putting out an early Treacherous Blessing to hit out land drops, but that will cause us a lot of life points unless we follow up with an immediate Doom Foretold
You can only use each effect of "Branded in Central Dogmatika" once per turn
While it is a fairly expensive card, its effect and color made it a must-have for Green decks
Even with it being the de facto deck to play at this point, competitive events like the one that was won by the above Affinity list have had a ton of diversity through the rest of the Top 8