At the end of the day, if you enjoy cracking packs and can make good use of the movie posters, full art foil lands, deck box, and spindown, this product seems like a very solid pickup
Your best choice is to use asymmetrical stax effects like Narset, Parter of Veils, but you can also counter symmetrical effects with some reduction of your own
Even in a world with mana burn (where you lost life if you didnt spend all the mana in your mana pool between phases), I still cannot understand why this card saw print, let alone why the prospect of losing a few points of life was considered sufficient downside for generating 2-7 mana in a color not known for mana ramp
Newly carved out space: Green mana sinks, blue mana sinks Section 9 34 Despite not using green mana at all, we still have a reason why we chose Tropical Island over any number of alternatives, and that reason is Everbark Shaman