You can spend one Black mana for two life lost, two cards drawn, and you kill creatures while you do so - so he's basically a stronger effect for most Black decks at the kitchen table as he interacts with your foes' stuff and works well with any life loss effect out there
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Lets try comparing their total mana costs through the second activation
Cultivate always has a place in green decks, and heres the list of other ramp cards in the deck, to get more card draw, forests, mana, or creatures onto the battlefield: This ought to get the deck moving out of the gate
I'm hesitant to mention counterdrafting in Level One because it's a relatively unimportant aspect of Booster Draft
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