mtg ramp cards standard Essential Spellbook – Green MCD]] Green 2 mana noncreature

There are plenty of standout chonky creatures in the slot, such as Quakestrider Ceratops

Land Tax [Best Long-Term Card Advantage Enchantment] White rarely wins the ramp race, especially when green decks start accelerating

During Journey into Nyx design, we were looking for an effect for a black inspiration card and it dawned on us that maybe this would be the place to put King Midas

We reprinted it in Ravnica to not much fanfare

Check out Stephen Menendians deck from the 2011 Vintage Championships: "Stephen Menendians 2011 Vintage Champs Deck" Creatures (10) 3 Trygon Predator 4 Dark Confidant 1 Blightsteel Colossus 2 Vendilion Clique Spells (36) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor 4 Force of Will 4 Gush 4 Spell Pierce 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Ponder 1 Time Walk 1 Tinker 1 Yawgmoth's Will 4 Preordain 1 Fastbond 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire 2 Sensei's Divining Top Lands (14) 1 Island 1 Flooded Strand 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Polluted Delta 1 Volcanic Island 2 Tropical Island 3 Underground Sea 4 Scalding Tarn Sideboard (15) 1 Ancient Grudge 2 Ingot Chewer 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Lightning Bolt 1 Mountain 2 Pyroblast 1 Red Elemental Blast 1 Tormod's Crypt 1 Yixlid Jailer Trygon Predators role is clear in Vintage: munching on Moxes

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator | Illustration by Eric Deschamps Pirate commanders are legendary creatures that are also pirates, or other eligible commanders that mention pirates in their rules text or otherwise synergize with pirates