This is very pushed with numbers to abilities to just three splashable mana in cost
It provides ramp, card draw, and board presence all at once and excels in typal decks thanks to the changelings it creates
Her design was meant to strike a balance between realism and a comic-like style, taking inspiration from the characters in the film The Dark Crystal
Three Steps Ahead is useful because, while the rates for each of its individual abilities are a bit slower than wed like, the option to use any of them on one card means we can run that many less Cancels, Clones, and Catalogs in the rest of our library
This is not something we do lightly, but it is something that has to be done
That mechanic is a throughline for Magic gods, not FINAL FANTASY ones, and it was a real bummer for Hydaelyn to have a downside when you needed to spend seven mana to flip her