Its low mana cost means that any deck along the aggressive to control spectrum can play it, and since its colorless, you can slot it in anywhere and cast it using any color
I'll admit I was a bit skeptical at first, but in early design we always try things because sometimes, as was the case with DFCs, what seems dubious ends up playing well
The second wave of this set contains no Serialized Ring Cards, which are found in the first wave (see "'The Lord of the Rings' Set")
If you are jamming a few Eldrazi Titans and don't want to wait ten turns to cast them, you can power them out on turn six or so with the right ramp package
Getting three or four spiders each time you cast the card isnt hard, and its a must in spider typal decks
Aside from the top cards, Fates Collide has a solid supporting cast, but not enough to catapult it into the top-tier of X&Y sets, as some of the best X&Y booster boxes are packed with popular Pokemon