A land that becomes a creature because of the first mode will retain any other supertypes, card types, subtypes, and abilities it had
If either of these resolve we should be able to combo off if that's what we're going for
I wasn't able to track down a specific issue where this panel appears (please let me know in the comments if you do!) but there's a good chance it's from Maximum Carnage, a big storyline that spanned through all the ongoing Spider-Man comics in 1993, and saw Carnage do what he does best, spread death and havoc, this time with a makeshift "family" of superpowered maniacs
Rogue's Passage [Cat deck]: If you have that one creature you will benefit from a lot if it deals combat to an opponent, this is he land you want in your deck
As such, it's very exciting when we get a new outlier
Wheel returns more cards per mana than Thoughcast (for one)