It's flexible, political, and lets you laugh off removal-heavy pods
6 Shockingly Good: Tynamo (Burning Shadows #44) In this Tynamo card, Ito successfully uses a range of materials to depict an underwater landscape
Ramping into Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger or Emrakul, the Promised End used to be quite potent against control strategies, and you can certainly imagine a world in which Field of the Dead alongside these threats pushes control decks out of the format in an unhealthy way
But wait, theres more if this card gets sent to the graveyard, it can be transformed into a fusion monster from the extra deck, i.e
Urza's Saga Gaea's Cradle (EX) Gaea's Cradle (GD) Gaea's Cradle (PO) Serra's Sanctum (GD) Tolarian Academy (NM) Gilded Drake (GD) Time Spiral (EX) Yawgmoth's Will (GD) Exodus City of Traitors (GD) Survival of the Fittest (NM) Stronghold Mox Diamond (GD) Sliver Queen (EX) Urza's Legacy Grim Monolith (EX) Grim Monolith (NM) Mirage Lion's Eye Diamond (PO) Alliances Lake of the Dead (EX) Lake of the Dead (GD) Lake of the Dead (NM) The only German card is a City of Traitors (NM) and the only Italian card is a fantastic looking Lion's Eye Diamond (NM)