Kraum, Ludevic's Opuss ability puts pressure on your opponents in two different ways: play more spells each round since the more they hold onto them to play later the more cards you get, OR : hold off on playing more than one spell a turn to keep from giving you any card advantage
For the mana you are going to be in a better position from making and equipping a Sword than you are from just flopping down the Batterskull
This is what makes Golgari Food such a difficult deck to pilot correctly
Between cards like Strip Mine (the original land hate!), Wasteland, and Dust Bowl, it will be quite difficult for opponents to even guarantee that they can drop lands onto the battlefield
[20] The revision from Demon to Beast in the type line was done in the hand of the set's editor, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes
Budoka Gardener / Dokai, Weaver of Life Top of the list is a card that does what green players like doing more than blue players like drawing cards