If youve been playing Magic: The Gathering for any length of time youll understand that there are some very big and expensive creatures in the game that can only be allowed because they cost a lot of mana
These days, Dragons Rage Channeler is seeing more play than Monastery Swiftspear in general, but Swiftspear was the de facto most powerful red one-drop for an extremely long time
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Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total
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#11 - Ancient Greenwarden For the longest time, I had this card confused with Ulvenwald Hydra, as a 6-drop Green card for a landfall deck