Mana Value 3: Cultivate Cultivate (and its virtually identical twin Kodamas Reach) establish another benchmark: a card that costs three mana should earn you +1 extra land plus some minor benefit
Thus, they mostly serve to sit in my binder and act as chum for sharks to try and lowball me on
The Lander token won't be created
By this point many creature and spell names began to start using the same words or types
Greasefang, Okiba Boss Greasefang, Okiba Boss is certainly no slouch as a vehicle commander, but I wouldnt really use it as a rat commander unless I were going purely on theming
Gix Tempo Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor is essentially Mono Black Edric, Spymaster of Trest that has a slightly weaker card draw engine (you have to pay life) and weaker colors but instead comes with a built-in finisher, trading your individually weaker cards of 1/1 evasive creatures for actual haymakers and win conditions of your opponents' libraries