But it also runs plenty of hand disruption, which should ensure you can stop your play pattern from getting messed up
We obviously wanted to add black to represent how he had been twisted, but the character also had some white in him (he had taken actions to protect others), so we ended up choosing to make him white-blue-black as Planeshift had three-color arcs (a color and its two allies) in it
Other removal spells are made unreliable by their dependence on specific gamestates
Cost reduction plus repeatable card selection is a genuine engine, and plenty of early lists are already running him at the helm
They don't usually think of 3-mana 1/1s with trample, and they definitely don't think of Saprolings but maybe they should
These dont have a price on TCGPlayer yet, but I believe that theyll easily hit the 1,000$+ mark judging by other serialized cards WotC has released in past sets