Unlike the original version, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds cares specifically about big creatures, which should please Timmy players
Before all that, they were the by-product of a cycle of green fungus creatures from Fallen Empires
Here are the most effective ways to play around discard strategies: Draw a bunch of cards consistently, which is unfortunately something that some colors struggle to do (blue card draw and green card draw tend to be the best)
The flexibility of an artifact creature at the kitchen table, particularly, with respect to colorless ones, is pretty important to evaluating it as a card
No Infinite Combos Similar to the land destruction rule, a lot of groups find infinite combos annoying, boring, or otherwise unfun to play against
Its the kind of feel-good format preservation players are always begging for, and Wizards even acknowledged The Professors tireless campaign for a reprint by giving it to him as a preview card