Overeager Apprentice can give you an enormous boost of mana, equating to four Dark Rituals per turn cycle
15 lands can even work with the lowest of curves, like many red decks in NEO
For how much Garfield and Magics other core designers didnt yet understand about the future of the game, the reasoning for this was simple, and showed a tremendous amount of foresight: adding more and more cards to a single card pool would, in Garfields own words, collapse the game into complexity and would strongarm players into buying cards they might not want. Hmm
This fiexes your mana well and can threaten to be a 3/3 when it attacks, allowing it to get through and/or trade reasonably well
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If you don't, the reflexive triggered ability doesn't trigger