The God side, a mono Green creature, effectively gives all of your legendary creatures the ability to generate mana of any colour
However, the disadvantage you're creating for yourself is almost always less than the total amount of disadvantage you're causing to your opponents , especially in black where you have ample graveyard recursion at your disposal
I mean with stuff like: But Second Sunrise doesn't care about the permanent type
It tickles me that the Guild of laws chose art depicting a card-carrying member of the Guild of lawlessness
With Green, you have a handful of fighting creatures like Wicked Wolf, Thorn Mammoth, and Kogla, the Titan Ape, but they're fairly scarce on their own
As for the Reserved List, it would be great if something would change, but at this point, I've mostly given up hope