Silent Clearing Next up we have Silent Clearing, which is essentially a power-crept pain land
Instead it has a ton of powerful pieces to combine with the other cards available in the format
Yes, unless the ability also requires tapping that creature
The Nightblade is a 3-drop 1/3 that drains a life from your foes whenever a token leaves the battlefield from sacrificing it like Treasures for mana or to Jan, or to chump blocking to keep a planeswalker alive or from your foe's mass sweeping effects like Akroma's Vengeance
Selesnya is the easiest color for modifications (its the color pair of choice of Auras and +1/+1 counters, and 95% of the best Equipment cards are colorless), but dont sleep on this in just regular ol +1/+1 counter decks: the Trainer buffs all modified creatures, so if you have even put a couple counters on him, everything else that has even one on it will get a big boost during combat
Unsleeved shuffling is where differences show up in almost anything (including real cards you dont want to scuff), which is why sleeves are the standard for most Commander pods anyway