Compared to Sower she is more robust due to having persist however most of the time you want to make this guy with a mana open as tapping out to drop a 2/2 you don't want involved in much combat and therefore doesn't offer much tempo can be very risky, it can easily lead to them untapping and getting out the card they were holding back for fear of other counters
Sun and Moon overcomes its middling fringe status
Oko, Thief of Crowns The most broken of many broken things in the power crept Throne of Eldraine , Oko, Thief of Crowns elking everything was just too much to chew on when it adds loyalty to do that, instead of minusing the way removal abilities usually worked with planeswalkers
How to fix the problems and tune it up
On a serious note, if someone is new to collecting, and they want to get into Pokmon, I would recommend buying and/or hunting a card they would enjoy regardless of the grade
Just by clamping down my fingers on each version of this Flooded Strand, I could quickly determine the thicker card was the fake one