This three-drop 2/1 flyer dominated play early on for all of those reasons and is still great today in all of the brews
After Commander Legends: Battle for Baldurs Gate came out, I was thrilled to see the cycles of Dragon cards with Adventure modes I could use as spells early on, and later cast the creature side to increase the density of Dragons
Another area the deck is a bit light in is card advantage, so Unstable Amulet provides an early drop that can create some energy, do occasional chip damage, and essentially draw a card for two energy
In more aggressive or combo decks that can reach the six mana threshold it excels and is also playable in control however it is a dead card for control against decks like red deck wins where casting it is suicide
The most popular format is called Commander
There have been many different variations of these basic land cards across the years, featuring illustrations by a number of artists