While one mana is pretty easy to pay, the ward effect has the potential to keep your creature protected across several turns, or at least tax your opponent so they cant do multiple things in a turn
His ability to gradually upgrade your board into 7/5s means that eventually, youll overrun whatever stands in your way
That left fans with no options besides the secondary market to pick up these wide-ranging reprints
Their return in Outlaws of Thunder Junction heralded a new use for Deserts, not only because there were just more of them to work with, but also because that set included Desert Bloom, a Commander precon using Deserts as a backdrop to a landfall deck
Spider-Man is an awkward structural anomaly due to being resized during development, but future Marvel sets shouldnt have the same problem
Also needed 5 color commander