Being a vehicle also means that it will survive most board wipes, after which it can start exiling creatures that you dont want to see again
The ground became the Battlefield and friends cherished a laugh over their sleeveless cards getting scratched
Trading this away early gives you a bit of flood protection and even synergy with cards like Inti, Seneschal of the Sun or Currency Converter
Notably, while MTG has done a lot of creature consolidation ('Mammoth' is folded into 'Elephant', for example), Aurochs is still a valid creature type, and even got a couple of other new cards printed
Its return is poised to have a profound effect on Moderns artifact strategies with the addition of powerful new cards, including Urzas Saga and Kappa Cannoneer
Naturally, the most expensive version of this card and the third most expensive in foundations as a whole is the Fracture Foil Showcase variant