Interaction Density by Bracket The right amount of interaction depends on your power level
It was going to pay for everything
It costs just three mana to animate, an affordable rate in the creature lands world, and it also gets around a major downside of creature lands: the creature being killed in combat, thus losing you the land
BPhillipYork: I don't really understand this card, I guess it lets you beat up your opponents (or their planeswalkers lol) for 3s, and get some scrying in
A clear accelerator in pirates, its not quite accurate to think of Staunch Crewmate as half a Knight-Errant of Eos because its a lot weaker and its search is more limited, but this is a breakable level of effect
There was some disappointment with the mechanical execution on some of the animals