It also has Ward, meaning it cannot be chosen or targeted by actions, abilities, or items, leaving your only option to get rid of it being a good old-fashioned challenge
By reducing your own spell costs while you tax opponents, it forces the game to slow down on your terms and makes it extremely difficult for other decks to resolve key spells efficiently
Channel lands, cycle lands, and fetchlands seem disgusting with this, not to mention the Field of the Dead-esque text
Avacyn doesnt require you to go in an Angel kindred approach
If youve got a five-color good stuff deck, perhaps headed by Kenrith, the Returned King, or Garth One-Eye, then Invasion of Alara is certainly a spicy card to include
Timetwister It might look like this is pretty far down the list for part of the Power 9, but there are some significant drawbacks to Timetwister