The SIR artwork pairs them together with warm, soft lighting, a deliberately different emotional register than most of the dramatic hits elsewhere in this set
So, along comes Erode, a new, cheaper white removal spell that instead grants a tapped land instead of the chance to peek at your deck and potentially strengthen a creature twice
Because of this, using a card like Professor Oak beforehand can increase your discard options and make it easier to play
While putting Chromatic Lantern on a list like this may have made sense a few years ago, the card is now pretty terrible in comparison to a lot of options players have
You attack three opponents, create two token copies of Avenger, and suddenly you have tripled your plant token count and triggered Landfall multiple times