initiative mtg cards Legion's (Double Masters 2022) Passageway Seer - Creature -

All the usual mono-black suspects fit in here, from Entomb and Demonic Tutor, to Stinkweed Imp, to Reanimate, to Cabal Coffers

When you have such a potent archetype you are just best off trying to do your thing as reliably as possible and Vial in singleton is not what you call reliable

If you already have a creature land in play, like Dryad Arbor, and you earthbend it, it becomes a 0/0 creature with two +1/+1 counters

This is a huge net positive overall

You have to pay the mana cost but it does enter the battlefield and get the cast trigger

The absolute makes other abilities redundant in this case, the same would happen if this creature also had flying or shadow