(Side note: announcing that you threw a planeswalker into one of these boxes may have the side effect of new players ravenously buying out every single box in hopes of being the winner of the Golden Ticket)
The main reason to include these in the level of power scaling is everyone has a concrete idea of what level these bring
It reminds me a lot of the Pokmon craze from the 1990s in how the cards interact with one another, causing damage to other players decks and characters
Despite having a similar theme that screams synergy at first glance, a deck helmed by Archelos, Lagoon Mystic probably isn't the best home for Back to Basics because of the demanding color identity that will likely see you running a high number of nonbasic lands
Functional, but Wizards continues to give us half-baked, low-value mana fixing
Once again, the trick here is to find the artist whose work you especially enjoy (every artist is credited on the card), and stick their name into Serebii