Dockside Extortionist starts to get a little out of control when you start combining it with ways to blink it or retrigger it , giving you more and more Treasure tokens every time it enters the battlefield
Savvy players of a deck known as "The Deck" used to throw in a couple of copies of this card-advantage artifact remover in order to, well, gain card advantage, while improving their board positions
It is the kind of card every control deck wants to have space for
Thanks to the Reserved List and cards like Black Lotus, there is no denying that MTG is inherently collectible
The flip gives you mana that is more versatile than a Black Lotus because you can choose a different color for each Treasure token
Other creatures are Food artifacts in addition to their other types and can be used as Food Tokens (spend 2 generic, tap them, sacrifice them, and gain 3 life)