Immediate cost reduction is huge, even if it only applies to fliers
The White Rose Jewel of the Garden, Merlin Goat, and Go Go Tomago Darting Dynamo are there for the extra Lore, getting you closer to winning the game
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In most situations, you'd rather have the slightly more resilient Crucible of Worlds, but Excavator is a nice bit of redundancy that can attack or block early