I always reply, "I have some bad news for you." Reprint Chances: Very Unlikely Edge of Autumn If we can do non-mana echo costs, why not non-mana cycling costs
But a card like this (or Pia and Kiran Nalaar) allows you to do the mental trick of saying and when I no longer need all that extra mana, I can just throw the rocks at things with my commander! Then you realize youll never run out of things to do with mana once youve actually played a decent number of EDH games and probably wont do a lot of rock throwing, but still
Now, granted, those decisions are usually terrible - like deciding to try out the forbidden soup or needing to wear the fancy new black ring you found - but theyre still an integral part of the RPG
The set itself became a major success globally, driving increased interest in premium cards
I took it back out to the garage, stripped off the new ink, prepped the ground again, and reprinted it