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The main reason is also the most apparent - the four Murkrow can really murder (pun absolutely intended) your Psychic-types

That means your army of elephants (or anything else really) suddenly becomes a lot scarier

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If you cast a card with prototype for its alternate cost, that becomes the mana cost of the card

Were looking at a sort of chicken or the egg scenario, because both problems influence the other

Just to be more annoying, WotC actually replaced the cast wording of these triggers with play for a decade or so but their oracle text has now reverted to cast so they are consistent with other printings