The latter issue means that decks that are looking to utilize the graveyard heavily will probably want to avoids this card, but many other decks will find this to be a great addition
The deck then plays its powerful midrange creatures on turns 3-6 including Kunoros, Atris, Elite Guardmage, and Dream Trawler, many of which have value-generating abilities such as card draw, life gain, etc
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The former could hit cards like Birthing Pod, Cryptic Command and Splinter Twin all of which were important, but the latter was better versus Burn and Zoo, and also back then manabases were a lot more painful as decks were more reliant on Shocklands, which meant a turn one Thoughtseize commonly saw you at 15 life from the get-go
Even pricing in the new demand from Standard, it seems unlikely that Pyroclasm can stick at more than $20, and dropping back down towards $10 seems likely