initiative mtg cards Legion's (Double Masters 2022) take the initiative cards mtg

You have to pay the mana cost but it does enter the battlefield and get the cast trigger

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On Thin Ice serves as removal, Marit Lages Slumber gives you a big Thing token, Rime Transfusion makes your Thing commander unblockable, Glacial Crevasses (where the Thing was found) serves as a Fog, and Winters Night and Glittering Frost help ramp you even further

The absolute makes other abilities redundant in this case, the same would happen if this creature also had flying or shadow

When you have such a potent archetype you are just best off trying to do your thing as reliably as possible and Vial in singleton is not what you call reliable

The best thing about the deck are the rummage effects