Adding green means you get access to a bunch of cards like Traverse the Outlands, Return of the Wildspeaker, and Selvala, Heart of the Wilds in addition to your Essence Harvest, Rite of Consumption, and Tainted Strike, as well as the ramp to actually make it all happen
Every few years Magic: The Gathering brings poison counters back to the game, and with it come all sorts of new cards to poison out your opponents
The use of contrasting reds and greens, the spikes and sawblades conveying a sense of terrible danger, and just the figurative image of someone fleeing while on a treadmill all combine to create a sense of dread that is perfectly captured by the title of the card
The former is undeniably dismal, but the latter is so good as to make it worthwhile
This is important to the history of tokens because the Brand team let R&D choose what went on the back side of the ads
Wood Elemental Everything about Wood Elemental is just bizarre