Mana-Charged Dragon allows anyone to pump your guy, and you can use green and black mana to Firebreathe your Dragon
One of the most powerful synergies you can have with this excellent Bant card is to sacrifice it to an effect like Birthing Pod, getting a 4-drop into play and then putting Derevi into play from the command zone, so it ETBs and untaps the Birthing Pod, allowing you to do it again
WHITE As the poster child for Theros block, Elspeth, Suns Champion is a strong planeswalker that most players will be happy to own a copy of, leaving the Theros Gods to show up as a larger cycle down the road where the theme of the set allows
Even if it didnt pass the vanilla test everytime it was cast, it seems very plausible that a hard-to-combat knight that rewarded you for playing mono black would have been a force to be reckoned with at a time when creatures were not what they are today
This light green splash also affords us access to Regrowth and Concordant Crossroads, which well touch on a bit more later
Pair it with steady engines like Rhystic Study or Kindred Discovery and your creatures will keep growing while you stay ahead on resources, which makes this a sneaky but powerful way to scale your board
