Ungraded & graded values for all MTG M11 Magic Cards
Other Small Creatures A large portion of the deck, still, is made up of more efficient creatures that are lower on the curve
Each Jumpstart booster is assigned a theme based on a particular strategy, creature type, or from MTG history
Plus, if you are going to spend money on expensive Reserved List cards, you probably want them to be tournament legal, just in case you end up deciding to give Legacy or Vintage a try some day
Now, thats still five mana in total, but the key thing here is that you can flip Vesuvan Shapeshifter face up and face down a lot in a single match, and that means you can always have a copy of the best Creature on the battlefield
While you can get value from a dead Meloku that was killed with spot removal after you had spare mana he does nothing to give value through mass removal which can also be a pain