Crystal either needed to be cheap enough to enable combos or be a target for an anthem effect since she decreases the number of matches where you wouldn’t draw your anthem. Putting her in surfer range seems great.
Shanna at 3 lets you do Kazaar > Blue Marvel > Mystique + Shanna which might be good. Shanna + three 1-drops might be an decent T6 option too. Probably playable but she’s been bad so long that people probably won’t give her a chance unless they overbuff her and roll her back like Enchantress.
The academic view here is also ignoring the improved UX you get by being able to tell a user immediately if they’ve failed to fully type out email address which could happen for any number of reasons (another application stealing focus after they started typing, hitting tab by accident, certain kinds of typos, etc.).
This is a disaster waiting to happen, especially when reputable mushroom books look like this