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Rares or mythics are best, because there are more foil copies of commons and uncommons floating around

It also has the same edge case as Fanatical Firebrand: if you need just a little more damage to win, this is a winning top deck

Being able to Crop Rotation away a Basic Forest or a Shockland on T1 into a Nykthos or Gaeas Cradle remains an insanely good play, and its a tutor that remains good throughout the game, thanks to the ability to grab anything from a Wasteland to a Witchs Clinic

Reveal that card

Darksteel Mutation + Song of the Dryads Spot removal is fine enough, so not too much disrespect to another card reprinted in this set, Path to Exile, but it puts you a card down against the other two players at the table

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