Four mana for two tokens, who knows how much energy, and an ability that makes all your creatures meaner and hasty
I really want artifacts to be playable again in Modern, and this biased me toward ranking Thought Monitor highly
Because of the Adventure, you can really look at it as a potential 4-mana 2/2 that gets you a permanent back from your graveyard and that is also a card I would probably always play
These are very popular cards, particularly in higher power levels, and they were in need of reprinting
It was in 2013 that I was introduced to the format, but in 2018 I really developed a love for the preconstructed decks by analyzing these
At -2, you can use Vraska to turn a creature into a treasure artifact - which can in turn be sacrificed to create one mana of any color