From Magic Arcana: Friday, May 31, 2002: Fallen Empires tokens Odyssey may have pushed token creatures to the forefront of tournament Magic, but the biggest set for tokens (and counters) was probably Fallen Empires from 1994
Restless Reef, lurking back there with deathtouch is pretty dank, but attacking to mill someone is also on point
Most notably, we got to see all four of the Commanders from the precon decks, including the slithery Sliver and eldritch Eldrazi
Graded Population Report: Arceus V #267/S-P Visualize the distrbution of grades in the chart
Plus, if youre jetting off to another place in the world afterwards, you can literally exchange currencies on your phone with no fees I mean, thats a no-brainer, right
It's not just gameplay utility that makes these cards costly -- it's the difficulty of finding physical copies of those cards, hence players' constant demands for reprints in Masters sets and even Commander deck cycles