Once you've combined a host and an augment card, the resulting combined creature is a single creature for all game purposes
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And a Negate is never useless later in the game as a top deck, unlike the Modal lands where a tapped land wasn't that heavily desired later and the spell isn't playable
Minds Desire is the best of the Storm bunch and has seen its fair share of bannings
While effects such as these are fairly common in Magic these days, the fact that this is a Treefolk spell gives it an edge and provides myriad synergies with other cards on this list
Perpetual Timepiece , Heaven // Earth , and Unholy Heat feel distinctly out of place in this deck, and can be replaced by practically anything on the budget upgrades list without losing anything that you want the deck to do