If you're trying to push green aggro, you need to add more one-drops, not cut them.
Faerie Guidemother doesn't help aristocrat decks as much as Doomed Traveler, but I can see the Traveler's initial body being very underwhelming if you have to jockey for board position without sac to help you.
Merchant of the Vale is another in a line of recent cards (see Spark Reaper, Vivien's Grizzly) with interesting mana sink abilities that fall just short, imo. I still think blue's loot ability should be shifted to red, as blue's current card drawing and filtering abilities are still miles ahead of every other color. It makes no sense for me to have a strictly worse ability in another color.
For Witching Well, here's a shortlist of cards I don't run at 540 because I either cut them or thought them a bit under par:
Anyone running the nonbasic "untap cycle" lands. I am revisiting the ideas of them and many (U/B/W) seem almost worth the risk of you run Skyfisher types in multiples
I had the impression, that they are worse than the ones from BFZ or original Zendikar, so I dropped the idea. The drawback of having to have three basics is too high in my eyes.
If you're trying to push green aggro, you need to add more one-drops, not cut them.
Faerie Guidemother doesn't help aristocrat decks as much as Doomed Traveler, but I can see the Traveler's initial body being very underwhelming if you have to jockey for board position without sac to help you.
Merchant of the Vale is another in a line of recent cards (see Spark Reaper, Vivien's Grizzly) with interesting mana sink abilities that fall just short, imo. I still think blue's loot ability should be shifted to red, as blue's current card drawing and filtering abilities are still miles ahead of every other color. It makes no sense for me to have a strictly worse ability in another color.
For Witching Well, here's a shortlist of cards I don't run at 540 because I either cut them or thought them a bit under par:
Also, why is Raptor Companion a pet card? Is this a joke inclusion? Did it help you win a draft GP or something?
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