All of this is obvious, but its the fact that its all on one card that makes this impressive
Green mana always excels at Land ramp, and by accelerating ahead of your opponents in mana production, Hugs both speeds up your gameplay and allows for a greater number of cards to be exiled if the card needs to be recast Hugs suite of abilities makes for a solid Gruul value and combat package, working equally well at the helm of a Commander deck and as an additional piece of existing Landfall decks like Lord Windgrace.
Early in Scars of Mirrodin Standard there was a Vampire aggro deck, but it just happened that you had multiple two-power one-drops that were Vampires and the two- and three-drop payoffs were about as good as the alternative
They shoot down delver, stoneforge, and d&t creatures, and that already makes them good against a good portion of the meta
Zone or 99: 99 Ioreth of the Healing House The possibilities here are pretty amazing
This combo wound up winning Pro Tour Murders At Karlov Manor and ran rampant in the RCQ season that followed