This card deals with Overlords, with aggro, with creatures in general, Leyline Binding, sagas, siege enchantments, the list goes on
In most cases the first printing ends up costing about the same, or sometimes even less, than something like a Masters set reprint
BB is Brandon Bozzi and MR is me
One generic and a blue to counter an instant or sorcery is a better deal, but it's still a more narrow Negate
If the deck did nothing but put the fourth Demonic Consultation in every deck with Necropotence, that would have been enough to memorialize LauerPotence, but other defining characteristics, such as its strict adherence to curve and its positioning of Firestorm (seen again in Randy's Tax Rack deck, above) were important additions to the Magic deck design vocabulary.