At worst it cantrips for 2 mana, so its never a dead card
Elvish Archdruid Elvish Archdruid, though exclusively good in elf decks, is still one of the better green ramp cards
So if that mistake occurred way back in the mid-90s, surely things have been buttoned up since then to prevent further errors from making it to print
For Exploration to be at its best, you want to pair it with ways to draw tons of extra cards or play lands from the graveyard
A 1/1 for three mana with protection from white and black, Animar gains a +1/+1 counter whenever you cast a creature, reducing the cost of creatures you cast by an amount of mana equal to the number of counters on it
Its likely to be blocked itself, but out and out unblockable is the most literal and reliable form of evasion