Its also a nice build-around piece for decks that favor big-butts
The mechanic of sorts for it cares about spells that cost five or more mana, and that makes use of the adventure mechanic as many of the adventures here are cheaper spells, with expensive creatures on the backend that you can play after ramping and interfering with opponents
Read More: The best Strixhaven cards for Modern 2 Spike Feeder Now, in most lists about life gain Commander cards, this might not rate so high, but given that the new Witherbloom commander, Willowdusk, Essence Seer, lets you put +1/+1 counters on a Creature equal to the amount of life youve gained or lost in your turn, Spike Feeder is suddenly very powerful
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In Sultai colors with Green ramp, this is not a big deal to hit, and you draw a card for each thing destroyed to refill your hand like Decree of Pain