Her static will crew a Vee on your turn and give it haste
When Champions of Kamigawa came out, maybe a few players had a good time countering a huge spirit spell with it during the pre-release or in sealed pool games
Weatherlight Weatherlight is a solid inclusion in any historic-heavy deck, which means Artifacts (Breya, Etherium Shaper), Legendary Tribal (Captain Sisay), or Superfriends (Atraxa, Praetors' Voice)
Then, in 2004, the format really exploded
Each Happy Meal comes with a 4-card booster pack containing one foil card and three non-foil cards
No More Lies Cavern of Souls is making people sleep on this spell a bit, I think