Lightning Greaves Lightning Greaves helps you strike immediately and the auto-equip makes all your incoming creatures more threatening
I despised the idea at the time but foils back then were very sparse and difficult to open, so their impact felt easy to overlook
Are the MTG Arena Starter Decks too weak, and you're looking for a higher power level deck
While that balance has shifted over the years (along with plenty of other archetype-defining cards that have come and gone), Mana Drain continues to find ways to make control viable, despite how intense of competition it faces
I would say that the Ranger has 8 distinct modes of action with what you get given and where you choose to put it, and not three as you might suggest just by looking at the outcomes
Since it will get a +1/+1 counter every time an opponent plays a spell, you can expect it to grow by at least 3/3 each turn