This is continuing an ongoing theme of quarterly releases after the initial The First Chapter in August 2023 and Rise of the Floodborn launching a few months later in November
In a game of Commander, legendary creatures die all the time, and this card will quickly become too expensive to recast
This keeps the initial experience much easier to grasp, while ensuring that the players will learn all of the game by the time they have gotten all the packs.
For the most part the reprints are all fairly low-level, but any talk of Zendikar Rising would be lacking if it didnt mention the fact that reprinting Lotus Cobra, a card which gives you one extra mana of any colour whenever you play a land, is just the best news
It's true that, for the most part, Wizards has stuck to its Reserved List promise and hasn't mass-reprinted the cards on the list