If you ever want to fight other control decks on an axis theyre not prepared for, look no further than this wet wizard
Other lands, like [c]Den of the Bugbear[/c], can tap for mana and have additional abilities too
Funnily enough, in Commander, many of the best cards you could run arent legal in mono-black because of hybrid mana, so its going to be harder to build around there
It can be affected by anything which affects either type of permanent
A single board wipe would not only reset the battlefield, but remove all of your acceleration
would have had to be limited to pretty much the state of Nevada, Atlantic City (Better check travel insurance for 'stabbed under a boardwalk'), tribal casinos, and the few other legal places it could be found at the time