Facilier, Agent Provocateur costs a little more than some of the other cards on this list
With the Mists of Lorien, you have a chance to pick and choose which cards you want to get rid of, or all of them if you have enough mana
The raccoons an okay early mana rock, so its not like youll just be holding onto the card until you can use its more powerful ability
I can definitely use the 1/1 tokens and I certainly don't mind paying life for mana when I can offset it with life gain from cards like Soul Warden
The featured mechanic from The Ruinous Powers is cascade, an extremely powerful ability that gives you the option to reveal cards from the top of your library until you find something that costs less than the spell you cast, and you cast it for free
MTG circumvents the usual problem with depictions of Hekatoncheires by making their extra arms into floating appendages