In addition, you can draw a card (and lose 1 life) every time a permanent goes to an opponents graveyard (from the battlefield)
On the other hand, while foil drop rates in normal Standard sets have increased recently, in the past, you'd open a foil mythic about one in every three boxes (and this might be being slightly generous), which means to open an original foil Theros printing of Heliod, God of the Sun, you'd have to open roughly 45 boxes of Theros, which means getting 50,000 copies would take 2,250,000 Theros booster boxes, which at $100 would add up to $225 million
The next two chapters give nice boosts to your Elves in combat: the first an additional +1/+1 counter, the second the ability to weaken or even outright remove opposing creatures if enough Elves are attacking at once
One of these was a Pokmon Snap contest which was advertised in the pages of its magazine, CoroCoro Comic