Dust Animus makes it worth your while to wait until you control five lands to actually cast it, with plot giving you the ability to pay that cost in advance, and the Outcaster Trailblazers mana-generating ability is potentially more useful when cast for free on a future turn
I prefer to use ebay to price my cards, though referencing online card shops such as trollandtoad.com can be used
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The Battlemages were simpler, as they were "virtual vanillas," meaning they had effects when you played them but were just 2/2 creatures for the remaining turns, so they went into Planeshift
Not to mention, the update added way more customization to the cards I'm designing
Not exactly a remarkable card for constructed formats on its own, but would probably gain a bit of stride in Limited