While four mana is a lot to pay for this effect, it can be game-altering, especially if you have cards that allow you to chain together multiple combat steps in a row
While these arent super common, its important to understand that these costs cant be paid with any color of mana the same way generic costs can
It pairs well with cards like Augur of Autumn or Vivien, Monsters' Advocate that lets you play most cards off the top of your library
Lord of the Pit dates from Magic: The Gathering Limited Edition Alpha, the very first print run of the trading card game released in August 1993
You need to be generating a lot of mana already to make it sexy, so its really about finding interesting utility lands or lands with auto-win conditions and benefiting from them all coming into play at once
Thats each creature you control with four or more power that does damage