pokemon spearow card Cards & Artwork end display Spearow - 21/151 Pokemon Lamincards

With some self-mill or discard effects its easy to get a powerful creature like a Butcher of Malakir into your graveyard and then reanimate it with Meren significantly earlier than you would be able to hard cast it

For example, Command Beacon lets you put your commander directly into your hand

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Rush of Knowledge (Onslaught/Legions/Scourge) The common consensus in Onslaught/Legions/Scourge draft was that you wouldn't want to play a deck with more than two colors, since there weren't many cards which allowed you to "mana fix" - that is, fetch a third color of mana

Planar Chaos gave us a color-shifted version in Essence Warden which isnt quite as powerful, as green cards care less about lifegain than white cards do, but it still sees plenty of play