The amount of tap-lands (lands that enter the battlefield tapped) that we have really slows down what is supposed to be an aggressive and low-to-the-ground deck
Keep in mind that at the time, there was still a heavy roleplaying element to the whole Magic: the Gathering experience, and the game was still heavily grounded in D&D/Sword & Sorcery tropes over the slick, almost science-fiction approach that came in later
And what about big daddy himself
Over the weekend, Wizards of the Coast previewed The Mind Stone , which more or less confirmed their plan to turn all of the Infinity Stones into mana rocksand likely, to print some payoff for assembling them all
Slip Out the Back is the most expensive and one of the only efficient options right now, utilizing a single-target phasing
You can only use it at the times you can do a sorcery