Luckily, we dont always have to spring for the best of anything, and there are plenty of options available that can counter a spell and give us a bit of a bonus too
This is limited by the cards that work in this ramp payoff + sacrifice artifact space, but there are definitely some like Bristlebud Farmer, Goldvein Hydra, Ancient Adamantoise, and Im sure others
Twitter and various Magic: The Gathering subreddits have been full of discussion about favourite returning cards and mechanics that can now be afforded without taking out a loan on someones house
If you have no mana floating, and two or three lands in play, then it can be worth it to pass the turn and take a hit from your opponents creatures, even though this means that you will be drawing fewer cards next turn
It creates two 1/1 red Goblin tokens for every copy