Dear Woodland Acolyte, 

<3

Yesterday when Danny, my co-writer here on this website, read my love letter for Bonecaller Cleric, he responded: “A random cleric that just happens to fit exactly in cube 342, classic Hanjo.”  

I get most excited about commons and uncommons that slide perfectly into one of my Master Cubes. When you find a card that fit multiple archetypes, create certain sequences, that have that synergy I’ve been looking for. I’ve read you, Woodland Acolyte, during spoiler season. I really like the Adventure mechanic, I think it is one of the best ever made, and when I read you I just knew you would slide into one of my cubes. 

I used to play Gifts Ungiven in standard and Reclaim was in that deck. Reclaim is not a very good Magic card, but it fit perfectly with Gifts Ungiven. Your adventure, Mend the Wilds, is the little brother of Reclaim. In the right deck, just your adventure could be worth it. But you, Woodland Acolyte, is just a fine enough card in a lower power level environment. Especially if you can be synergistic with you enters ability. 

The last 2 days I wrote love letters for cards that I found when I jumped into the rabbit hole of updating my Mich Masters Cube. A cube that is an ode to all the brews my friend Micha-el used to make. Gifts Ungiven wasn’t a card Micha-el used to play, but it fitted the time frame and vibe of the cube so it has been an inclusion since day 1. The thing is, to make Gifts Ungiven work, you either have to play Unburial Rites (which I don’t like), Life From the Loam (which is hard in draft) or recursion effects. You could be a perfect one off search target for Gifts Ungiven in that cube. Especially in a Bant Astral Slide deck, because abusing your enters ability after a Gifts Ungiven, sounds like music to my ears. 

But the best thing about you, the reason my heart jumped when I saw you in that Scryfall search in my rabbit hole, is something I missed when reading you in spoiler season. I was doing a Scryfall search for the creature type ‘Cleric’. I love these moments when you find a card that just brings so much together in a cube. 

With love, 

Hanjo