Birthing Ritual Birthing Ritual is a fascinating card that Yawgmoth players will likely play as a four-of over This card can do three specific things if you control a creature: Look at the top seven cards of your library at your end step with no other actions Look at the top seven cards of your library at your end step and sac a creature (unconditional sac outlet, if you will) You can use the full effect: look at seven cards, sac a creature, and get that sweet We have Birthing Podat home effect This card is really versatile, and I think its easy to look at it and evaluate purely as a lower-cost, albeit narrower, Birthing Pod, but it can just be a way to get free information and trigger leave the battlefield or when a creature dies effects
There are sorceries, instants, artifacts, and enchantments that all have the tribal type tacked on
It can be underwhelming without that support, but getting a couple of attacking gnomes is still good value
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That's Waylay in a nutshell: nerfed but still gigging Viashino Sandstalker since 1997, but not the best when you're stuck at one mana
Secondly, it only costs one mana, which makes it really cost effective, especially in a deck filled with other cheap artifacts