So if you drop this on turn 1, and then another creature on turn 2, you can saddle the good dog, and grow it to attack, and it becomes a 2/2
Comparing Mentor of the Meek to Dawn of Hope shows that there's leagues between a one and a two mana tax
This is doubly true for dual strike, which allows you to copy an up to four mana cost spell for the low-low price of one red
But throw in Dross Scorpion to the mix and we can now untap the Throne each time we activate it, meaning infinite proliferate
: This land becomes a 3/4 white Dragon creature with flying until end of turn
Episode 4 The two teams, the Sun Empire contingent and the Legion of Dusk expedition, have made their independent ways deep underground, each having encountered some of the less-than-hospitable denizens within the caverns