Focus : The plains landscape Mood : Rolling, lush, beautiful Color : Land associated with blue mana Location : Island or coastline area Action : Give a wide, beautiful landscape shot of an island or coastline area filled with unique natural rock formations
If I had to rank them personally, it would go something like: Sakura-Tribe Elder in decks that care about it being a creature Nature's Lore in Mono Green or multicolor decks that run Forest duals (Breeding Pool) Sakura-Tribe Elder in decks that don't care about its card type (hey, it can chump block!) Rampant Growth because I really like ramp that I can cast in turns 1 and 2 Skyshroud Claim in the same decks as Nature's Lore Kodama's Reach / Cultivate Grow from the Ashes Explosive Vegetation I'I think it's really close between Kodama's Reach / Cultivate and Grow from the Ashes but in most cases I'll prefer the Cultivates as I find them overall stronger when cast on turn 3, which is the most important aspect of these ramp cards to me
I predict a similar trajectory for serialized cards
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth
The Modern mana base of Fetch- and Shocklands can quickly grow the one-drop to become a powerful threat, while one or two additional Thoughtseize can clear the way for him to make damage
Finally, Surge Foil variants have not seen a demand increase, and are actually dropping in price as of the writing of this article