It sits in an unfortunate middle ground
One of the Pod versions I did of this deck had a fairly deep creature chain from two up to seven and was really invested in getting value from the Pod however this really weakened the deck and made it more like a combo deck with no way of finding your combo card
A tribal instant, now referred to as a kindred instant, is an instant spell that also has a creature type
Three mana seems like a lot for a land drop, but white takes any land ramp it can get, especially when it becomes a potent draw spell later in the game
This affords a +1 tempo boost in and of itself
It is the most widely recognized format, used in collectible card games like Magic: The Gathering, Pokmon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!, as well as in traditional sports cards