You can also pump your deck full of ways to gain life, which means youre not going to notice the tiny single damage a turn anyway
This mechanic has the deck builder in me excited to brew up a dinosaur deck that revolves around it
Selvala costs one generic and two Green mana to cost, and by paying one Green mana and tapping it you can add X mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control
As if that weren't enough, Edgar Markov also has First Strike, Haste and the effect that when it attacks, its controller puts a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire they control
Of course, every seasoned player would say that buying singles is much more effective than opening packs, but it just doesnt have the same pure joy or unmitigated fun of opening a fresh, new booster
I think this adds to the cool factor, though it will cut us off from interaction that blue and red would normally give us