But while the asking price for the English version is around $1000, the Japanese copy is selling for just $300 - most likely because the hype has transferred from the Japanese copy to the new hotness
Discarding an island is just much more difficult than discarding a blue card, especially with greedy mana bases, but its still doable
You could even Hail Mary cast it for X=0 to just use the scry part and smooth your draws or add to your storm count
Due to its menace, its hard to block in the early game, and early drops that might normally keep back an early beaterlike Fog Bank, Typhoid Rats, Wall of Blossoms, or one of my favs, Black Catare going to have some serious difficultly stopping your Prodder until they have two creatures online
Anyone with even the slightest ick from Spiders is going to hate playing against them too