Still, easy to imagine a world where you want a maindeck answer to Lessons, Momo, and Reanimator that still has game against landfall and this will work
The flavor is generic enough that it would fit pretty much in any MTG set (either in-universe or Universes Beyond) that has some chaos-loving baddies, and since mayhem is in no way tied to any Marvel IP (or trademarked by Disney ), Wizards of the Coast should be free to use it whenever and wherever they want
Whereas if you saved it, because of duplicate protection, that pack would open a Rare you didn't have yet
So while the card is always in the minds of Magic players for being very unplayable, it's also always in another part of their minds that the card may become playable one day
It's actually Lampshaded in-game: one of the Mediator class's abilities is called "Mimic Daravon," a technique that puts enemies to sleep by supposedly imitating the game's comically obtuse tutorial instructor character
