Iconic art, nostalgia, and historical importance can make collectors want a card even when they are not using it in a deck
Its power is 4+ for power-based decks, it's in the color of Food matters in Green, it mills for recursion of things like lands or things like Regrowth, then you draw a free permanent, so it likes decks heavy with things that have a battlefield presence, and you can always just return a land if there is nothing else
Steel characters, such as Anna True-Hearted, keep your quests safe with high resilience, while items like Imperial Bow give a significant combat advantage, granting keywords like Challenger and Evasive to tip fights in your favor
The cards are: Sorcerous Spyglass (As Sorcerous Spyglass enters the battlefield, look at an opponent's hand, then choose any card name
The most glaring example is Doubling Season, which Im sure is rather shocking