taiga mtg card • Revised Edition (Foreign Black Border) #287 Add or .) Illustrated by Rob Alexander All Magic Mtg Taiga - Etsy

For casual play, bears are decent enough that you can just do that

These decks can fill up their graveyards in the first few turns with creatures like Stitchers Supplier and Satyr Wayfinder

I don't know many Magic players who would look at it and decide that doubling their land drops for a single Green mana as early as turn one is objectively bad

The anticipation of what your opponent will play based on experience and knowledge of the current pool of tournament-legal cards is the so-called metagame the game outside the game (cue Inception music)

But for once, it might be worth it, in theory

The real appeal is its powerful abilities, starting with its ability to tap for two mana of one color to cast those expensive Hydras sooner