Its cost reduction ability means that after a flurry of cycling or discard effects, you can often drop this 4/4 for free, which creates massive early pressure
Ill sort the cards into five pilestrue bulk, $0.50, $1, $2, and $++that I can use later on when trading or selling
This has led to multiple companions ban across numerous formats, but none top Lurrus of the Dream-Den, one of the very few cards ever banned in Vintage, a format specifically designed to play with Magics strongest cards
If it survives a turn cycle, it can always untap up to seven lands on its own, though it's nice that you can keep it out of combat, if you prefer to have your 7/5 trampler on defense for some reason
(11/3/2023) Due to a 2021 rules change to cascade, not only do you stop exiling cards if you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value than the spell with cascade, but the resulting spell you cast must also have lesser mana value
The deck was great fun and much much harder to play than I expected