Others can be activated at any time, like Dawnhart Mentor and Sungold Sentinel
Pidgeot ex also deserves a nod, balancing playability with a slick, ultra-stylized take on a Gen I icon
Red Shanks (ST-23) Aggressive and fast
Few graveyard commanders can return as many creatures from the graveyard at once as Nethroi
As a smoothing mechanic, this has been the most revisited typecycling variant, albeit after a long hiatus: Alara Reborn , which printed the first cards with two landcycling abilities, then a decade passed before March of the Machine , The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth , The Lost Caverns of Ixalan , and Duskmourn: House of Horror , which all had a cycle of commons with appropriately colored landcycling
The core strategy revolves on utilizing the top card of the deck as an extension of an active hand, turning hidden information into a deadly weapon