It's Opened By Someone Who Doesn't Know What They Have We've all heard stories about young kids (or were the kids) opening packs back in the day and ultimately destroying what would have been very expensive cards
In these early days of Magic, it was pretty common to have a deck name that expressed some inside joke or followed a naming convention (like the cereal convention for combo decks)
Here, let me give you a quick example: Prior to Invasion Block, here were the instant/sorceries that destroyed a target enchantment, in the order they were printed: Of those, only Serene Offering had an on-resolution benefit of gaining some life
It has quickly become a ubiquitous card across every format
The first stage of the saga lets it tap for colorless mana
Any permanent that cares about a card being discarded, like Drake Haven or Containment Construct, will trigger when you channel a card from your hand