Retrace This was something I thought would suck, but the idea made me giggle so I tried it
Being able to sacrifice a creature to make an amount of 1/1 creatures equal to its mana value is very strong, especially as a response to targeted or mass removal
That seems more efficient than similar cards that do 1 damage only, like the Electrostatic Field that ships with the deck
Naturally, you need to have that many lands in your hand in order to take full advantage of this effect, and if youve put that many lands into play, you arent going to have very many cards to take advantage of them without drawing some more
Though this is a reliable source of Treasure production, Goldspan Dragon most notably states that rather than producing one mana of any color, when sacrificed, its controller's treasures produce two mana of any one color instead
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