While egregious play patterns was the primary reason for the bans, the card was also incredibly hard to find, and at one point during its time in Standard, was regarded as the card with the lowest supply, relative to the rest of the formats card pool
Players can always just pay the requested mana, or, for each 1 in that cost, they can tap an untapped artifact or creature they control rather than paying the mana
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If a Dragon you control enters the battlefield attacking, it won't cause The Ur-Dragon's last ability to trigger
In theory, the same is also true for Lethal Scheme, which is a fairly popular removal spell, especially for graveyard-focused decks
4 Venerated Rotpriest What if there was a card that gave your opponents poison counters while you pumped up your infect creatures