In a Blogatog post earlier today, Mark Rosewater revealed that R&D is currently undergoing a bit of an experiment to test some Fetch land alternatives for MTG
Not being able to have any interaction or being forced to get rid of your hand is never fun, and it makes having to play against Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur obnoxious
You can take a mulligan and re-draw your first cards, but every time you do, your hand gets one card smaller, which encourages you not to bother unless youre seriously screwed over
Getting the Pristine BGS grade, three of the four subgrades (Edges, Corners and Surface) are all 10s
You can give your stuff a +1/+1 counter and flying for 0 loyalty, and then -3 to destroy a creature an opponent controls with power 3 or greater
He functions perfectly well all on his own, milling cards into graveyards that could potentially make him larger and letting you cast those cards every turn