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While Expressive Iteration technically only replaces itself as far as cards in hand are concerned, it's the perfect spell to drop on turn three in a land-light hand, in order to make your land drop for turn and set yourself up for turn four as well

Exerting your opponents' characters is key, as that lets you take out key engine pieces through challenging

In order to be able to do this the sacrifice ability really needs to have no mana cost and be unconditional

Because shock lands have land types (Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, Forest), they are searchable with fetch lands, forming a powerful mana-fixing duo

It was such a good card, it had to be banned for how easy it was for decks to make