It focuses on the Blight mechanic, where you can give your own creatures -1/-1 counters
#10 Revive 27/204 Admittedly, this card at first glance seems to be lacking some of the secret sauce it takes for a card to be truly great
For years, there werent a lot of ways to abuse this land, but with the printing of The Gitrog Monster and Titania, Protector of Argoth and the additional redundancy that Ramnunap Excavator adds to Crucible of Worlds style land recursion, its relatively easy for a focused Commander list to negate the downside on Lotus Vale and turn it into a permanent Black Lotus level ramp spell that cant easily be dealt with
When I got back to collecting a few years back, I went back to my old home and tried to see if I would be lucky to see them
Oh yeah, and it also has the worthwhile interaction of dodging Krark-Clan Shaman damage by being a flier
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