A one-sided mana doubler that existed before the likes of Caged Sun or Crypt Ghast, Nirkana Revenant fueled many a powerful X spell while also being able to put opponents down with the aid of a Whispersilk Cloak or Akromas Memorial
FromTheShire: This is stupid good even if simply played fairly, but there are multiple ways you can do things like cast this on turn 4 with enough mana floating to immediately sacrifice it to emerge one of the Ulamogs
[Deck Title= Rakdos Aggro Baker Neenan] [Creatures] 4 Bomat Courier 3 Kitesail Freebooter 4 Glint-Sleeve Siphoner 4 Goblin Rabblemaster 4 Knight of the Ebon Legion [/Creatures] [Spells] 3 Fatal Push 4 Smugglers Copter 4 Thoughtseize 3 Kolaghans Command 1 Harnessed Lightning 3 Dreadbore [/Spells] [Lands] 4 Aether Hub 2 Foreboding Ruins 4 Blood Crypt 5 Mountain 8 Swamp [/Lands] [Sideboard] 2 Liliana, the Last Hope 2 Collective Brutality 2 Rending Volley 2 Hazoret the Fervent 2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet 2 Grafdiggers Cage 1 Duress 2 Glorybringer [/Sideboard] [/Deck] The value of the looting from [Card]Smugglers Copter[/Card] shines even more in a tap-out disruptive aggro shell thats obligated to play more narrow removal and less generic disruption
The Timber Protectors also have a second use
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Then you can exile this to return all of them to your hand, with a cost of five mana, but then only if you control at least six artifacts
