One of the best things about a good leave play effect on a creature is that it puts your opponent into a lose lose situation in which he is forced to decide if he would rather remove the creature and give you some advantage now or try to deal with it being in play. This becomes considerably more problematic for the opponent with every point of power that the creature has as well as the value of the ability.

Seedguide Ash is an uncommon treefolk druid from the Lorwyn expansion set of magic the gathering. A 4/4 creature it costs one green and four colorless to put into play. This is a reasonable if not great cost for a 4/4 creature in green but it is the leave play effect that makes this card so very useful.

This ability reads "When Seedguide Ash is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for up to three Forest cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, shuffle your library."

This has always been a useful ability as every deck can use more mana, and with decks like elf ball this is a fantastic position to put your opponent into as they must decide if they want to allow you to gain three forests or try to deal more permanently with a 4/4 creature. But now that landfall has come into play it can be much more useful. The most obvious lose situation would be killing this and then allowing you to put 3 4/4 baloth creatures into play or give another of your creatures +12/+12 until the end of the turn.

Another way to get some true value out of this would be to use it more than once and there are a few ways to do this. Many of them red or black, allowing you to return creatures from the graveyard, many of them for a single turn only. Having a 4/4 hasted creature that gives you three more forests at the end of the turn is fantastic.

In limited this card is great though it may not be a first pick it needs to be an early pick. This is not only because the land is useful but because not having the land in your deck is useful and in a 40 card deck three lands are going to be a higher percentage than in a 60 card deck.

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