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Partly, the price comes from multi-format playability: it's an incredibly powerful mana accelerator for any deck running mana dorks, which is such a broad archetype that it sees play in Commander, Standard, Pioneer, Modern, and even Legacy

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Enchantments like the Court of Ambition are notoriously difficult to destroy, with very little enchantment removal typically being run, and most of that is regulated to white and green

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They also cant do much other than draw cards, giving them little utility