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Even in the equipment deck, you sometimes wont be able to enable Giott and itll just sit there doing not much of relevance

Rites of Flourishing and Song of Creation both let you play more lands a turn, Growth Spiral, Explore, Tail the Suspect, draw cards and put extra lands in play, and cards that care about lands entering such as Tireless Tracker, Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Phylath, World Sculptor, and more

As part of a heavy Merfolk plan, however, its at least something

(2025-06-06) Once the number of lore counters on a Saga is greater than or equal to the greatest number among its chapter abilities, the Saga's controller sacrifices it as soon as its chapter ability has left the stack, most likely by resolving or being countered

If you decide to cast this spell on your turn, you can build your board state without counterspells interfering

Deaths Shadow is somewhat unintuitive as a sideboard card but plays the same way against the Burn decks, and better in most cases