If thereupon the mana part of the total cost is less than three mana, three needs to be paid
This big beast costs 8 mana in total and is a 5/5 with haste, but it also has a powerful ability: "When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control." If a player has a board of around 10 creatures, and they slam down a Craterhoof, they're likely to take out multiple opponents in one turn
You can only evolve one Pokmon per turn (and it cant be in the same turn in which youve introduced it into play)
Blighted Woodland Tap to add 1 colorless Tap, pay 3 generic, pay 1 green and sacrifice it to search your library for 2 basic land cards and put them on the battlefield tapped Escape Tunnel Tap and sacrifice it to search your library for a basic land and put it on the battlefield tapped Tap and sacrifice it to make target creature with power 2 or less unblockable this turn Evolving Wilds Tap and sacrifice it to search your library for a basic land and put it on the battlefield tapped Fabled Passage Tap and sacrifice it to search your library for a basic land and put it on the battlefield tapped
Gatta and Luzzu's ability will prevent the damage you would deal to Ballista, and you'll place two +1/+1 counters on it because of Hardened Scales
Suddenly Impact Tremors and Pyrohemia become engines of destruction