"It's pretty much the first associated with that type, and it literally has 'steel' in its name," noted Pratte
The cards you search for might go to different game zones: your hand, graveyard, or in the case of ramp spells, directly on the battlefield
You can drop it early and use it as a speed bump or just watch it die to the very common mass removal and seize two lands from it
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While most green decks run some number of Rampant Growth effects, ramp decks usually play a large quantity of mana dorks like Birds of Paradise to kick off as soon as possible
This massive card advantage was tough for other decks to keep up with, and once a good shell for Necropotence was found it became nearly unstoppable