It also strips out many lands from your deck, and over a few turns, it dramatically reduces your chances of drawing a land, thus increasing card quality from the rest of your deck
Shimmering Skies is the 5th set released for the Lorcana TCG, including 18 full-art Enchanted Cards
Thunder Lasso has a strong effect and can win some games, yet I think the stats it adds to the board are small and thus it is unlikely for me to see this perform significantly better than a 3 mana 3/3 creature - and that is in addition to the fact that sometimes you wont be controlling a creature and the Lasso ends up being an effective mulligan in those games
And to simply dismiss it as a joke that says, well, if you dont have a middle name, Dont run Moniker Mage! still seems like a joke that went terribly wrong, and now people have to be reminded of it every time they see the card
But its better in the sense that it can grant one of your other creatures a little extra power if you want to swing with something else but dont want it to die
The black fetchlands all could threaten to find a Godless Shrine out of nowhere, and the information edge is surely worth more than the tiny Pithing Needle equity, or whatever