mtg you may play land cards from your graveyard Life the Loam return this card from your graveyard to your hand.) Rules Text: Graveyard, Type: Land,

Forgotten Ancient

Basically, all the new cards support either Food tokens or lifegain (or both) or bring some additional kind of value, usually related to generating or benefiting from tokens

permanently boosting the power and toughness of a creature leads to big boards, especially if you mess around with +1/+1 counters

Then if a creature named Eight-and-a-Half-Tails is in play, you gain 1 life for each devotion counter on Pious Kitsune

Hardened Academic Hardened Academic is substantially better than random creatures that grow when cards leave the graveyard because its counters can go anywhere, so you gain great flexibility on top of a cheap threat