Drafting was what R&D refers to as "on rails," where once you picked your creature type, you got locked into your theme and didn't have much variance in the draft as we would have liked
Luckily, this equipment card comes with a built-in user
The extra land part of the card wont always matter, since most of the time when you start using this ability youre probably not going to be in desperate need of more lands, but it could definitely help, especially in UG, which is a ramp color pair as it often is
Aura of Courage, on the other hand, often failed due to low creature count and early boardwipes, sometimes even without being able to really counter other (faster) decks with their high density of creature cards
Kind of like taxidermy, but with more confectioner sugar