Seedguide Ash has been a recent favorite of mine. All you need is some sort of sac outlet and you get three forests, which makes it a house in Prossh, Thromok, and Ghave (seeing as they are sac outlets). Now all you need is some sort of recursion engine.
I didn't see it mentioned so one of my favorite counters in EDH is Delay!
If I am using counters in EDH I usually save them when someone tries to stop me from winning the game, and this is the best counter for that since it only costs two mana, one of which is colorless. It's basically a second counterspell, but better in end game scenarios where the drawback of Delay, the suspend part will probably never happen.
Seizan, Perverter of Truth I made a fairly fun deck with him once that drew a lot of cards and stayed alive often because people liked drawing cards. It basically exploited B's way of making explosive amounts of mana to play some of the most fun and brutal cards that I always wanted to play like Curse of the Cabal.
I've seen a Phage the Untouchable deck that was really competitive and take out threw opponents with ease several times with the general alone when everyone knew what was coming. I think a deck like that would be interesting because you have a unique strategy and end up playing a lot of unique cards you wouldn't otherwise play.
It's a cheap creature that works well with green draw like Garruk, Primal Hunter, Soul's Majesty, Momentous Fall, and Greater Good. Other than that it can be useful with all the trample and overrun effects and evasion giving enchants and equipment. If it stays alive for more than a few turns then it will probably start to become a must answer creature. Not bad for G investment.
Sure in most cases I would try to run a creature that works well with the above and fills some kind of other utility besides being big, but I can see some decks using it because it's so cheap G.
I basically agree with everything you said and have felt the same for a while.
I like a lot of your ideas to even out the colors in the format. But I like how the colors are different and uneven. It's very difficult to make a game as complex as magic have different colors that are all different, yet equal in strength without taking away their i hesitant strengths and weaknesses. But like I said your examples are very good and a few cards like them would probably be good for the format.
I too dislike cards like omniscience that are big cost game winners that can be ramped out quick and thrown into many decks without thought as backup I win buttons. We already have enough of those!
And I think the direct damage ability is highly relevant in EDH. Not only is it in green, but it also takes out a lot of the back-breaking little utility creatures like Gaddock Teeg.
I think it's really good in some decks that have a real use for a lot of it's features. Alone each one isn't the best but they add up and this card can replace and do things many single cards would do in your deck. It's low cost, has a passive ability, a low activated cost and can be brought back easily with Sun Titan. It also doesn't draw a lot of hate.
I've seen Azusa go 3v1 many times, including against decks already mentioned. Sometimes it's too fast for disruption, or with fast resources and land destruction is able to overwhelm the answers.
Interesting with the infinite mana idea. I don't run any of those cards in the deck. I checked and it looks like there is no creatures that can cancel the triggered ability. Looks like I have three ways of dealing with this. Make sure it's in the graveyard or in my hand before I cast Primal Surge, or if it comes up keep flipping cards until I hit reliquary tower. The last thing I could do is not play Kederekt Leviathan, but then I would need a replacement that would work in these colors and not mess up Primal Surge. I don't know of one.
Yes I use him a lot. I remember the good old days where you could Birthing Pod Seedguid Ash into Primeval Titan
If I am using counters in EDH I usually save them when someone tries to stop me from winning the game, and this is the best counter for that since it only costs two mana, one of which is colorless. It's basically a second counterspell, but better in end game scenarios where the drawback of Delay, the suspend part will probably never happen.
I've seen a Phage the Untouchable deck that was really competitive and take out threw opponents with ease several times with the general alone when everyone knew what was coming. I think a deck like that would be interesting because you have a unique strategy and end up playing a lot of unique cards you wouldn't otherwise play.
Sure in most cases I would try to run a creature that works well with the above and fills some kind of other utility besides being big, but I can see some decks using it because it's so cheap G.
I like a lot of your ideas to even out the colors in the format. But I like how the colors are different and uneven. It's very difficult to make a game as complex as magic have different colors that are all different, yet equal in strength without taking away their i hesitant strengths and weaknesses. But like I said your examples are very good and a few cards like them would probably be good for the format.
I too dislike cards like omniscience that are big cost game winners that can be ramped out quick and thrown into many decks without thought as backup I win buttons. We already have enough of those!