For years, there werent a lot of ways to abuse this land, but with the printing of The Gitrog Monster and Titania, Protector of Argoth and the additional redundancy that Ramnunap Excavator adds to Crucible of Worlds style land recursion, its relatively easy for a focused Commander list to negate the downside on Lotus Vale and turn it into a permanent Black Lotus level ramp spell that cant easily be dealt with
On your turn, you can play a land and cast a spell from the cards milled that turn, allowing you to utilize resources from any graveyard
During your opponent's next turn, this Pokemon takes 50 less damage from attacks
Thrun, Breaker of Silence The trolls of Mirrodin stored their history and prophecy in Tel-Jilad, the sacred Tree of Tales
Moving a wrung down the weirdness ladder, we've got an entire drop dedicated to Jaws
And more importantly, the third-party resources I referenced heavily when putting together this newsletter (Scryfall, Gatherer, and MTGJson mostly) are also inconsistent with each other on points like these, although theyre all ridiculously comprehensive and consistent in their own ways