Be wary of the card advantage youre supplying your opponents, though make sure youre the one taking best advantage of this powerful triggered ability
And there's even a hidden Gyarados at the top of the card
Creature Ramp Llanowar Elf / Elvish Mystic / Fyndhorn Elf / Birds of Paradise / Arbor Elf / Noble Hierarch 9/10 These cards are all about as good as each other when push comes to shove
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It works, flavour-wise, as the Polar Kraken keeps eating your lands, but generally big creatures are afraid of creature-specific removal even without an increasing tumour of a downside
You can give your team Islandwalk with Master of the Pearl Trident and then give them an Island if they don't have it with something like Phantasmal Terrain or the Merfolk Tribal Instant Aquitect's Will