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While most people were focused on the Lions Eye Diamonds and Lotus Vales of the world, Flash quietly picked up errata that basically made it so that you couldnt just pick a creature and not pay for it, so that you could do the enters the battlefield trick which was the exact trick the card was originally designed to allow for (albeit, long before they conceived of just how big of design constraints this could put on them in the future if they changed the types of creatures they made)

Here's a comparison of a proxy Scorched Ruins with a random basic land out of my box

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Other factors such as condition, age, artwork, edition size (how many were printed), and rarity level (how hard it is to find) can also affect a cards value significantly