Being able to steal a players commander is often one of the most impactful plays in the format, and being able to do it for a measly two mana makes it clear that this card surely deserves its over-$200 price point on the secondary market
Burning Shadows was notorious for centering issues and surface scratches right out of the pack
Play Tables will also have some Pokmon mats, and the stores entire flooring and signs will be changed into Pokmon
Since youll be giving the death fork counters while attacking and blocking, it becomes laughably easy to get enough counters to stabilize your life total, remove opposing chump blockers, and create a must-answer attacking threat that will either kill whatever is thrown in front of it (then gain more counters), or gain a potentially lethal boost in power with existing counters if left unblocked
Otherwise, while a split card is on the stack, its mana value is determined by the mana cost of the half that was chosen to be cast