The card has a bunch of jokes baked into it
With so many fans of the genre in your communities, the upcoming release of The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth is sure to spark interest in Magic: The Gathering fans at all levels of experience
Its really, REALLY powerful to have dual lands that come into play untapped, and considering that these are best friends with the Surveil lands from MKM, were going to see a lot of Surveil/Verge manabases for all of 2025 and 2026
Inspiring Statuary is another way to leverage Food tokens for casting non-artifact spells (like creatures!), and then theres Seedborn Muse, which just creates huge mana value if you can keep it on the battlefield, which Gyome helps to do
Empty the Warrens The second storm win condition to Grapeshot, Empty the Warrens is more expensive but has more staying power