The Antiquities designers (Skaff Elias, Jim Lin, Dave Petty and Chris Pageand yes, back then much of the naming was done by the design teams) were being clever with wordplay
I'm not very optimistic of this card getting reprinted
The key point: proxies are about gameplay access and experimentation, not pretending you own something you dont
In some ways, this was the time where hybrid truly became deciduous
There are a total of 216 cards in this expansion, meaning that there is a whopping fourteen Secret Rare cards
The deck is good at spending its mana to a point, but past the fourth land, there arent enough repeatable mana sinks to justify multiple copies of a creature that explores twice