Just count it as a special bonus that Staff of the Ages stops all landwalk abilities, which also include cards like Livonya Silone and Ayumi, the Last Visitor
With that, it means that the sealed "Pokemon" box would have sold more than that, and since it broke records, it's more than the price of the Blastoise card
You do have emotes where you can congratulate an opponent on a win and other such one liners, but generally even though the game is called MTG: Arena and it is an online game with real life opponents, as you play you barely even make that connection
Hitting legendary cards is also much more flexible than it sounds, letting you recur planeswalkers, discarded Channel lands like Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire, and much more
Having even the 'window' that we see this artifact Tin Man guy get shattered is so much more impactful than a broken ring that the Alpha art is
Cook groups separate themselves by being a service that runs scripting for their subscribers, but given how quickly Pokemon and most big-box retailers move with upgrading their website security, I can see botting and cook groups slowly fading away