Youll still need a little graveyard hate like Scrabbling Claws or Withered Wretch in order to take out things that are inconvenient (like Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre), but then its time to Bring Out Your Dead with Rise of the Dark Realms, Liliana Vess, Sepulchral Primordial, Havengul Lich, and Geth, Lord of the Vault
The heuristic I follow for determining a cards overall usefulness is to ask myself, Is there any reasonable situation where this card is either dead or not impactful? Unlike its red equivalent from Alpha , Healing Salve is much more situational, and often useless
Its nice that this card is strong in 1v1 as a damage dealer, and in EDH, the discard and draw effect scales according to the number of players to compensate for the fact that a 5/5 with flying and haste is just alright in the format
Iroh, Grand Lotus Iroh loves casting spells
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