And it's a creature, giving it extra dimensions over other permanent hosers
(This graph uses red and green coloring to group sets in the same block.) Often the average sentiment will decrease over the course of a block, as the story's crisis escalates, but we also see cases where the trend is less clear or goes in the other direction
Playing a wrath, for instance, runs counterintuitively to curving out
Moderns abundance of fetch lands make this a remarkably common occurrence, making this spell free-to-cast at some point in the vast majority of Modern games
Really nice to have recursion packed in, which makes it less attractive as a target and lets it come back if it does finally get blown up
However, its ability to retrieve lands ensures that Branch of Boseiju will have plenty to fuel its power and toughness