While the 9 mana cost is more than a little expensive even for such an albeit fairly powerful creature, the secondary ability certainly helps push it over the edge into having excellent value
Cards like Grave Robbers, Nameless Race, and Eternal Flame just aren't
Thus the official Magic rules dont recognize watermarks, and timing restrictions cut out improvisational looseness from the gameplay
is the shuffling technique where you gradually transfer the deck from, say, your right hand to your left hand by sliding off small packets from the top of the deck with your thumb." [1] In detail as normally performed, with the pack initially held in the left hand (say), most of the cards are grasped as a group from the bottom of the pack between the thumb and fingers of the right hand and lifted clear of the small group that remains in the left hand
A fun little easter egg is that a reversed version of the mistake is given a shout-out in Time Spiral's Viscid Lemures, which shows what a 'lemure' is supposed to look like