Black Lotus, the most valuable Alpha card, provides a significant mana boost, allowing for powerful plays early in the game
According to Mark Rosewater, the topic of changing the card back "comes up every couple years [internally at Wizards of the Coast] but so far the status quo has always won." [3] The internal reasons to change the card back include updating the logo and trademark, removing the obsolete reference to "Deckmaster", and design updates to match the modern card face design
While this wont grab land cards from your deck, if you combine it with some incidental card draw thanks to other colors, you can quickly end up with an unmatched number of Lands on board
Then you may exile an artifact or creature card from your hand
Yes, it costs 6 mana, but most good sweepers are in that mana value range, and this cards effects are probably the best you can get for it