But a decade later, Wizards would print Protean Hulk, which turned Flash into a Turn 1 win thanks to a convoluted loop of creatures that you can tutor up by using Flash to not just cheat the Protean Hulk into play but immediately sacrifice it, which was oddly an upside due to Protean Hulk's death trigger
In cube at present I think this is the best flip card although the jury is still out on the new Garruk
Another reason might be that you prefer not to play with cards worth thousands of Euros, even if you own them, or that you dont want to have multiple copies of those cards and prefer to have a kind of physical Magic Arena where you only need four cards to build several 4x decks
In this sense, switching to Ardent Plea comes at a more significant cost than for Crashing Footfalls decks
This ability uses an intervening if clause, which states that it only triggers if the creature fits the requirements when the ability wants to trigger and when it goes to resolve