The Simic side is just two and prevents all of your spells from being countered this turn by spells...or abilities like the cycling trigger of Decree of Silence
Besides, Teferi untapping two lands means youre going to have exactly two mana a lot of the time anyway, so you might as well put it to good use
Martyr of Sands is a great fit for a deck thats loaded up on white cards in hand
Simply put, its when a player collects cards from the same series, creates a deck, and then plays that deck against another person
Now, a 2/2 flier for 4 is only mediocre when it comes to vanilla stats, but I wanted to include this card because of how poor the ability itself is
For example, if you were dealt damage by Stigma Lasher in the original game, the effect that states you can't gain life doesn't carry over to the new game