It taps for green like a simple Forest would, but its channel ability makes it a main-deck answer to artifacts, enchantments, and nonbasic landsall at instant speed
What's a card that doesn't have scry doing here
Rather than spending your money on one card, the same money can be used to buy dozens of other cards
It's strong in most mono-Black decks, blink decks looking for lands, ramp decks looking for more ways to ramp out lands in the creature base and midrange decks that have loads of card advantage ETB dorks like this to use and abuse
Today, we continue with one of the set's mascots and, indeed, one of the main pulls
Notably, opponents can't try to change by how much a relic's cost is reduced