Tempo increase in cube has much more to do with depth of power than it does with the peak power
The kicker cost looks weird, but bouncing a land can often be advantageous, as it lets you guarantee a landfall trigger for the turn in addition to buffing the spells damage
Undercity Dire Rat Rating: 4/10 This is an excellent common to have access to
Nyx Fun: 2 Impact: 3 Chaos: 2 Some decks will love this, some will hate it and the player who has been burned one too many times by stax-like prison decks and is packing all the enchantment removal will finally have their day
This is an incredibly strong duo of game winning or recursion so I'm sure you can see why I'd want to give it a shout out here
So along the way we get to keep choosing a new ring bearer, and eventually our ring bearer is legendary, cant be blocked by creatures with greater power, loots on attack, forces blockers to be sacrificed at end of combat and hits all opponents for 3 if it hits a player