Amped Raptor Amped Raptor is so strong, it was banned in Modern just months after its release in Modern Horizons 3
It is no longer a case of pick up the cards that give life and that you want in your deck, obviously you do that, but it is not always enough or you do not see the few cards that fit this criteria
I can see this white creature being the top-end of a white-weenie style Cube deck that focuses on low-curve creatures
To unlock their full power, run blink effects to reset the no abilities clause and recover their full text boxes
Lands with basic land types get their mana abilities inherently from the rules, rather than from the textbox, and other lands can get more compact, more readable explicit abilities
Combustible Gearhulk will either flip over some good reanimation targets or let you draw three cards, so either way is a win