Shutting down all of your opponents activated abilities, this dynamic duo throws a spanner in the works of even the best-laid plans, while simultaneously extending your own options by absorbing said abilities into their own text box
These references aren't totally obscure, but I also picked ones that aren't such popular knowledge that even people who haven't played the games probably know about them, like Sephiroth killing Aerith
If you need an army in a hurry, this card will quickly flood the board with Gnome tokens
There was definitely a period of time where I noticed my play patterns with the card were actively sabotaging my land drops later in the game, and during the early days of Commander, where big, splashy spells were king, I wrote Land Tax off as being more trouble than it was worth
For this, I use blue housepainters tape but an even better idea is to spring for artists tape because Ive noticed that the blue tape does have a habit of taking just a tiny bit of the ink underneath it when you pull it off