In more recent years, color hosers are fewer, weaker, and more situational, and part of that is that some of these older cards simply make it so that one person cant play Magic at all, which isnt exactly fun, as pointed out by Patrick Sullivan
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convoke, that this deck adopts
Bonus for intermediate players: Talrand is both a merfolk and a wizard, both well supported tribes, with lots of sorceries and instants that care about those creature types
For context, a PSA 10 copy sold in 2020 for $100,000, and thats the only one in that grade
Having a land with utility and one that can always produce mana is much less of a risk than something like Temple of the False God