It creates an incredible tension in a Commander pod after it sets everyones life to one, takes out every card in play and in hand, and leaves everyone scrambling to find a quick combination of lands and creatures
By tapping into things that people already know in what you design, you can create cards that really tap into something people attach to
Next to be spoiled was an Eldrazi flip-card, featuring a vastly changed Hanweir Township, which seems to have become a Cronenberg-esque amalgamation of the township and it's inhabitants
Jokes in this set range from Magic in-jokes like Look at Me, I'm the DCI, a joke about how seemingly random Magics banned list policy was, or Urza's Contact Lenses, poking fun at the fact that there are a lot of cards in the game that depict items that Urza once owned, to downright absurd cards like Charm School that tell you to balance a card on your head
With mono-colored decks, you lose a little bit of flexibility, but you never have to worry about mana, so it can sometimes be worth it