If there is Essence of the Wild on the battlefield, Cultivator of Blades will enter the battlefield as its copy
In the context of the card, it appears to be wordplay on the fact that the word "present" can refer to a gift you give to someone (in which case, it's pronounced like "pleasant") or the act of showing something off (in which case, it's pronounced like "prevent"), and the effect appears to be using both meanings at the same time
skips this tactic entirely and the lottery cards present in other games are almost never needed to make a functioning deck
Its used in some red prison decks that use planeswalker cards like Chandra, Torch of Defiance that generates mana to rebuild faster or fast mana sources like Chrome Mox
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It only has a few appearances on the banned and restricted list which include Chatterstorm, Empty the Warrens, and Grapeshot while Mind's Desire is restricted in Vintage