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It is almost an auto include in any deck with miracles as it makes you much less susceptible to mulligans

Pristine Talisman, on the other hand, is supremely uninteresting in most decks

How similar the cards in a cycle are to one another vary from cycle to cycle: Some cycles have obvious and strict patterns among them (such as the battlemages from Planeshift set

So when you see a card that is strictly superior to a card that used to see play (say, anything better than Shatter), that might give you an edge (or at least a clue) in new-card evaluation

The large mana curve works against it somewhat, but Pearl Medallion and Smothering Tithe help to get more mana