Just a quick note: Arena has a maximum deck size of 250 and while it might be tempting to just stuff all the cards you can into a giant 250-card deck (especially if youve recently been foiled by a decent mill engine), please dont
any instance of tapping that creature will be ignored, making this a very powerful way to deal with hard-to-kill creatures
Your first step will be to temper your expectations
2 mana to get a 2/1 red creature with first strike plus a random free spell is an incredible deal, enough that Id try to build my deck in such a way that this dinosaur never misses
"It's also only the second pristine Lotus, so that added some value also." Nevertheless some have an issue with the grading, and that seems to bubble under all the other community talk about this trade
Think of it less like a clone that taps for mana, and more like a versatile mana rock that copies a creature's abilities