Authors note: I tend to build my decks so that the majority of the cards in them work well in a variety of situations due to mono-whites more restricted card advantage
Traditionally you never want to be scrounging for playables in a tribal deck because the bottom of the barrel can get very grimy
2019-01-25 If the last ability does trigger, but Simic Ascendancy leaves the battlefield, use the number of counters it had on it immediately before it left the battlefield to determine whether you win the game
In the instance of protection from artifacts, it will be protected from anything that is an artifact even if it is something else in addition to being an artifact
Decks like The Wise MothmanThe Wise Mothman, Captain N'ghathrodCaptain N'ghathrod, and The MindskinnerThe Mindskinner will want The Water CrystalThe Water Crystal the most, as it turbo charges their milling shenanigans quite a bit
A Turn 1 Dryad Arbor isn't really any different from a Turn 1 Llanowar Elves or Elvish Mystic, and while this is true on Turn 1, the big difference is that Green Sun's Zenith is both a Llanowar Elves on Turn 1 and a Primeval Titan on Turn 5 or 6 (depending on how much you ramp)