Farmer Cotton doesn't gain you life initially, but it does give you an army of Halfling tokens and Food tokens
His loose brushstrokes and misty light turn the hard architecture of this Wall of Omens into something bright and welcoming
You are not lowering the total land count either, since Glasswing Grace and Adagia, Windswept Bastion help fill those slots while also adding more synergy
Earlier that day I had picked up a copy of Fate Transfer and I was able to use it to move 24 +1/+1 counters from an opponent's Managorger Hydra onto one of my creatures, give it infect with Phyresis and hit it with Chandra's Ignition
Being able to tutor anything you want into your graveyard for a single mana makes it pretty easy to reanimate something like Atraxa, Griselbrand, or Archon of Cruelty on Turn 1, which is incredibly hard to beat
Bolt Bend | Illustration by Svetlin Velinov Target-changing cards in Magic: The Gathering, often referred to as Redirect spells, allow you to change the target of another spell or ability