Most of these abilities are original (e.g., the ability to increase weight or change the weather), but others are based on spiritual concepts, particularly those of Eastern faiths
The Golgari deck from Worlds Top 8 had four Cottages and three Tortoises, with the Tortoise able to find a Cottage (or bring one back from the dead), while also reducing the cost of activating it (allowing the potential for multiple creature lands to attack each turn), and even pumping them
Just imagine discarding your hand to make a bunch of Clues to grow it, or making 4-6 Clues on turn 3 to enable casting it for just 1 mana
Assuming Lurrus survived, it started snowballing card advantage every turn thereafter
But besides that, you can get many notable creatures out with Sol Ring on turn 1 like Mox Emerald, Mox Emerald, and Mox Emerald
In just the past month, its popped up in decks like Ryzeal, Primite Blue-Eyes, and Bystial Fiendsmith