Imagine all the games where you land-ramp out of control, then picture that in a counter-based deck where you get to proliferate on every landfall trigger
clean tempo
In general, with 4 different ways to be behind, it should be easy to put yourself in a position to trigger at least 2 of them
Uthros, Titanic Godcore Oh Good, Urza Needed An Upgrade Saying much more about Uthros, Titanic Godcore than "Gaea's Cradle for artifacts" feels almost pointless
It also works perfectly as a commander of a Zombie-based army arguably the best, in fact
Personally, I gasped a bit when I saw the Yuffie Kisaragi card, because I immediately recognised Tetsuya Nomuras character artwork for Final Fantasy 7 , and I imagined how cool the Vincent Valentine version of this variant would be, or the Sephiroth version, or the Cloud version