Drawing a card and creating 2/2s is a decent stax piece, and this cards stats reflect that, but something about it leaves me wanting
They go back into your hand, so the best cards to sacrifice are ones with good ETB/LTB abilities, preferably cheap ones
Pillar of War takes some ideas from golem folk tales, including how theyre meant to protect a particular place and lie dormant until that places hour of need, and transposes it to Theros Grecian setting
2010-06-15 Training Grounds won't affect a cost that isn't the cost to activate a creature's activated ability
Ayula, Queen Among Bears Heres an example list from a Modern Horizons draft a friend of mine (Slatorade) did: The only spells in this pile of 36 Forests are Ayula's Influence (all lands can be instant, 0-mana 2/2 bears), Ayula, Queen Among Bears herself (2/2 for one green that rewards you for putting bears into play), and two Winding Ways which would almost always draw four Forests
Just to drive home how expensive this could end up being, there's an eBay listing with the current bid at $905