Although we have yet to see any cards with the defender ability from Dragonstorm, its often added to wall-type creatures who have some amount of toughness but zero power, making them pesky blockers but hardly win conditions
Natural Order makes you sac a Green Creature to cast the spell, but you get to search your deck for any Green Creature and put it on the battlefield
Miriam Scarlet & Violet - Special Illustration Rare 9
Well, Im glad to report that there are tons of strange ways to play Niko, Light of Hope, including kindred-kindred (simply include all the best individual lords and turn all your Shards into the same lord, which hopefully all buff each other), manlands, or (most baffling) actually cracking the Shards for draw
Uncommons tend to be worth less than rares
And a Negate is never useless later in the game as a top deck, unlike the Modal lands where a tapped land wasn't that heavily desired later and the spell isn't playable