Tony also points out that the sequence of plays above is important: We have to cast Rite of Undoing after we already control Ruthless Ripper or else Skye will have a black card in hand to unmorph the Ripper and kill us. Interestingly enough, Bernd finds that we can still play Rite of Undoing before taking control of the Ruthless Ripperin which case playing Despise is necessary: Start off by playing Evolving Wilds and sacrificing it to find any basic land (it does not matter which)
The thing the serpents are fighting with on both faces of the card is the foot of a Phyrexian which is obviously significantly larger
Even when drawing something as peaceful as an hourglass he finds a way to instill action into it
After the week long plant trial, I drove home (my return flight from Atlanta was cancelled) to Ohio for four days before beginning our two-week family vacation
In that case, Clever Impersonator enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature, and it's put into the graveyard immediately (unless something is raising its toughness above 0)
You make a land that counts as every basic land type, so it taps for everything