Due to its low cost, it finds itself in plenty of Steel decks where just using items in general provides synergy with their other cards
The legendary is a six-drop Vampire flyer and it gives all Black dorks +1/+1 (even your foes) and non-Black dorks -1/-1, so that's pretty compelling in a Black brew but it pumps around 20% of your foe's things and it's better in two color decks with multicolor stuff that includes Black
The card was not available in standard booster packs and required participation in specific promotional programs to obtain, which limited the initial supply
Or maybe you're meant to see this and yearn for the days of yore when creatures weren't so damn strong
To add a little extra flavor, the five students (Killian, Rootha, Dina, Quintorius, and Zimone) who we followed in the stories about Strixhaven are the five students who cast the spell
This version of Pidgeot makes excellent use of color and capitalizes on the exquisite Mega Evolution design to make this card stand out
