5/5 Illustrated by Yu-ki Nishimoto Standard Not Legal Alchemy Not Legal Pioneer Legal Historic Legal Modern Legal Brawl Legal Legacy Legal Comp
Decks like Jeskai Oculus that want access to three different colors of mana early can make great use of Starting Towns color fixing
Youll still need a little graveyard hate like Scrabbling Claws or Withered Wretch in order to take out things that are inconvenient (like Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre), but then its time to Bring Out Your Dead with Rise of the Dark Realms, Liliana Vess, Sepulchral Primordial, Havengul Lich, and Geth, Lord of the Vault
This allows the card to become one of the most valuable in The First Chapter
Which makes the opening much more exiting!
As sick as we all are by now of being locked under these effects plus draw-sevens, were only just starting to reach a point where past-WotC would have been able to react to that feedback