However, you may sometimes find that they can form the backbone of numerous decks in the game, precisely because theyre easier to find than cards hidden randomly in booster packs
Of course, this requires you have a permanent of the same type to sacrifice yourself, but that's not a huge cost looking at the prevalence of cards like Fable of the Mirror-Breaker, Experimental Synthesizer, and treasure token generators
Cards from Alpha have a different corner radius than any other tournament-legal Traditional Magic card
This list is highly meta dependent, and I tweak it after almost every time I play it
That said, there aren't many commons or uncommons with good stats at 3 mana even in Green, so depending on the final balance of your deck, there might be plenty of cases where it's better to create an opening to ramp quickly and play 4 or 5-mana class cards
The best fits for such a deck are creatures that have the right time and can mill the opponent out, like The Mindskinner and Nemesis of Reason
