The thing is that if you are forced into playing green in your life deck to play this dork then the scry is not making up for that consistency cost by itself
25-26 total mana sources is usually enough, but this can be scaled up if you frequently face a bevy of land destruction
A +1/+1 counter for each nonbasic land your opponents control
Birthing Pod Brutalizer Exarch Celestial Reunion Chord of Calling Doubling Chant Eldritch Evolution Evolving Door Fauna Shaman Fierce Empath Formidable Speaker Garruk, Caller of Beasts Garruk, Unleashed Hibernation's End Instrument of the Bards March of Burgeoning Life Mwonvuli Beast Tracker Nature's Rhythm Primal Command Rootless Yew Survival of the Fittest Sylvan Tutor Vivien on the Hunt Vivien, Monsters' Advocate Wild Pair Worldly Tutor Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
With so many good instants available, once a player untapped with a Shadowmage Infiltrator and an otherwise empty board the game was practically over, and if there was some small threat left over it could be dealt with in due time
#6 I wanted them to make a pokeball reverse holo for each of the first four professors so I could have one of each in my decks