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Vein Ripper was the star of one of the best decks in Pioneer before the banning of Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord (which was used to cheat it out without paying Vein Ripper's mana cost)

One card giving you the option of a second copy of your best creature late in the game versus a land early is absurd enough that this often makes the cut in my blue deck regardless of whether my strategy cares about clones

No matter what you discard, theres some value

Then each player who paid mana this way puts that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens onto the battlefield

The instant is a discard one, draw two, so you get the typical Rummaging card draw of Red to discard and then draw, like Big Score

Why an Elk