Patron of the Vein I really love Patron of the Vein
Players begin the game with a basic Pokmon in front of them, which they can gradually evolve over time into a more powerful version of the card
The best part about this card is its splice onto arcane cost since it lets you add it onto an arcane spell on the stack just by exiling four creatures from your graveyard
Loxi: The issue with all of these green big mana producing cards is that we've hit a critical mass of having so many that you can make decks with just a downright silly amount of mana generation
Its good when you need to gain life, and the fact that you can reanimate a nonland permanent opens the possibilities for cards like Lunar Convocation, Builder's Talent, and Hopeless Nightmare, among others
For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally