They work differently to other cards and act more passively to gain lore or give abilities
Pyre of Heroes Pyre of Heroes is the typal Birthing Pod, and in the right deck, you can have all sorts of combos and sequences
During this time, players will have a taste of whats to come and get a feel on how the expansion can shake up the games multiple formats
If your opponent tries to rules lawyer you, the untap effect isnt conditional on the discard if your opponent cant discard, the untap still happens
Even better, if you follow Nissa up by actually playing that Forest, and have seven or more lands, you can immediately flip her to her planeswalker half, allowing you to grab another land, draw a card, or make a 4/4
Take a look at the prices from MH2 (which was the most printed set ever until Tale of Middle-earth took it over last year), and youll see theres only a handful of cards there that are worth the price of a pack or more