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First, lets look at this opening hand, on the play against Naya Runes: With most Mono-White decks, this hand would be bad it has nothing to do on Turns 1 and 2 and even your Turn 3 plays are reactive instead of proactive

I learned this the hard way years ago when my first Dragon deck looked powerful on paper, but stalled every game because the commander did not support the tribe properly

+1: Draw a card, then discard a card

Turning off an opponents nonbasic lands is devastatingly powerful if this enchantment resolves and can stick to the field

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It is also not about value for mana but value for card and while a 2G 2/2 is pretty comparably crap to a 1G 1/1 a 2/2 comes a lot closer to being worth a card than a 1/1 does