After some reflection it makes sense: a general that can tutor for any creature in their tribe, while also having the ability to win any Sliver mirror matches really ought to be your general
Then the enchantment also costs three, and this time the ETB is for dorks with a cheap three mana cost instead of smaller powers, which are typically the same stuff, and then you draw without mana, but again, just once per turn like the Vampire
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Watchful Automaton: Good in Limited
Uncertain Times The most pressing was this set is meant to go into standard and WotC wouldn't be wrong for taking a more conservative philosophy on design as a bunch of newer players would naturally flood into the game
[c]Farseek[/c] counts as mana ramp, but so does [c]Dockside Extortionist[/c], and those are two very different cards