Crop Rotation is perfect for this deck because it throws a land in the graveyard and finds you Argoth when youre ready to meld
The biggest problem with the level-up mechanic is that it's slow (and also sorcery speed, which opens it up to blowouts), so having a way to get level counters onto our creatures quicker than normal is essential
(Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) The Reunion , Sacrifice a modified creature: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped
Both of these concerns ask us to care about what balance of lands and spells we're drawing in the first N turns, for various values of N
However, with the ban of Ice Age, the Starter 19 deck was hit hard, losing its strongest cost-reduction Event
Contrast these with the Portal: Second Age cards depicting lifelike weapons