It taps for Green mana rather than colorless and it arrives untapped, ready to be used
This downside for the casting player results in the cards being extremely powerful for their invested mana cost
It gains loyalty counters as the creature it's equipped to deals damage, and Cloud, Midgar Mercenary causes it to trigger twice
Plenty of brewers have dogpiled the likes of Vampiric Tutor and other top deck tutors, but nobody can deny the ability of the granddaddy of them all and my number two card, Demonic Tutor
The question here then, isnt if you will buy these lands, but when
There doesnt seem to be a way to skip it, but you do get a few Trainer Tokens, an EX card, a booster pack and a theme deck for playing through it