If that card is manifested, you can turn it face up instead, which is solid, especially if the manifested creature costs a ton of mana
When taken all together, what you have is a colorless Glorious Anthem with an unconditional discount on all your spells, on top of completely shutting down all planeswalkers
So I embarked on one of my most ambitious brews to date: to take one commander, and build four entirely different lives for them through backgrounds
Red Gratuitous Violence Guttersnipe Impact Tremors Abrade Ball Lightning Dragonmaster Outcast Harmless Offering Lathliss, Dragon Queen Redcap Gutter-Dweller Stromkirk Noble Taurean Mauler 2 Crackling Cyclops Goblin Negotiation Strongbox Raider 4 Burst Lightning Fanatical Firebrand 2 Heartfire Immolator Hidetsugu's Second Rite Seismic Rupture Thrill of Possibility 2 Dragon Fodder Bolt Bend Crash Through Dragon Mage 2 Ghitu Lavarunner Giant Cindermaw Hoarding Dragon Mindsparker Obliterating Bolt Ravenous Giant Viashino Pyromancer Gratutious Violence, Guttersnipe, and Impact Tremors are in traditional foil
Serra's Sanctum ($499) Its not quite Gaea's Cradle, but Serra's Sanctum is still a powerful card in the cycle
