Not bad. Lack of trample hurts, but it's a good mana sink late game. This is essentially a color shifted Lavaclaw Reaches, except it's in the appropriate ramping color, and not as fragile. Treetop Village gives it stiff competition. While this is a strictly better land, Treetop Village is a lot more efficient as a manland and has trample to boot. I probably don't like this more than Treetop Village overall, but still a good supplement. Primeval Titan rejoices.
I like this a lot, and will be playing it (just like all the other fast manlands). It's no Treetop Village ...but that's not a hurdle this needs to leap.
These are really striking me as great cards in many cube decks, but not the best use of cube SLOTS themselves. They come in tapped starting turn 3, and in high-powered environments, I want my manlands to provide value up-front and THEN serve as a backup plan if I stall out - dual manlands provide that via fixing first. I don't want a card taking up a green slot because I'm banking on our games to go long enough for it to make an impact, when the tapped-without-fixing aspect will likely hurt more often than that.
For a green utility land, coming into play untapped on turn 1 is huge, as it lets you cast an elf. The effect is nice as well, green decks can easily get more mana than they ever will need, and this is also a fantastic card to grab with Primeval Titan. I like it.
Essentially a mono-G lavaclaw lol. Seems bad. Gets chumped forever. You have to pay 2 mana over the stats of the creature (the G plus tapping this to attack). This just seems worse than the white one TBQH. Easy pass for me. The red one in this cycle is clearly the best, and the rest seem untestable.
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StaffNot bad. Lack of trample hurts, but it's a good mana sink late game. This is essentially a color shifted Lavaclaw Reaches, except it's in the appropriate ramping color, and not as fragile. Treetop Village gives it stiff competition. While this is a strictly better land, Treetop Village is a lot more efficient as a manland and has trample to boot. I probably don't like this more than Treetop Village overall, but still a good supplement. Primeval Titan rejoices.
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