Cards from previous sets like Mickey Mouse Steamboat Pilot, Pinocchio On the Run, and Cheshire Cat Always Grinning already had references to the Inklands in their flavor text
Theres enough ways to reanimate, exile, put into play and return to hand that you could feasibly activate the plant growth effect a few times in a turn
This also makes sense because 25 * 40/60 = 17.5
But there are still some scenarios that encourage such a gamble mostly ones where you cant afford to go slow and safe: When you only need a specific card or type of card removal for their bomb, Duress to protect your combo, that sort of thing
Armageddon Armageddon is the OG mass land destruction, followed by Ravages of War
The card I most accurately predicted was Clive, Ifrit's Dominant, when I initially covered Magic: The Gathering 's PAX East event before it happened