If you buy two, you and a friend can practice games together before you start attending events
Meanwhile, every other White and Red card that produces energy is also seeing play, like Amped Raptor, Guide of Souls, Wrath of the Skies, Static Prison, and Galvanic Discharge
It pairs nicely with token generators and with death payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Pitiless Plunderer, and Zulaport Cutthroat, and its forestwalk ability has synergies with Toski, The Odd Acorn Gang, and other creatures that care about dealing combat damage to a player
Ophiomancer's ability checks if you control a Snake at the beginning of each upkeep
At a base level, Flame of Anor is efficient and flexible, and with a wizard on board its in most cases better than Prismari Command