It's also a bomb in Foundations Limited, and probably one of the best Foundations cards overall, so you're always happy to find them in your Play boosters
Since the forage cost can be paid by either sacrificing a Food or by exiling three cards from your graveyard, you can keep your cards around and just turn those Food tokens into a buffer army
Winged Hive Tyrant is another way to help out your team, providing haste and flying to all of your creatures with counters on them
Speaking to other players at our preview, placing The Lord of Pain in the Command Zone seems to be the preferred way to run the deck and we can see why
Although any one particular game where you get mana hosed might be aggravating and unfun, variance in the number of lands you can draw is actually something that enriches Magic and helps to make it the game it is
Yes, I am a nerd when it comes to expanding the color pie, and in my opinion, creature ramp works so well in this color