Throughout spoiler season, weve really been waiting for something to tie all these Towns together, to little avail
But they'll almost always enter untapped and they tapped for colored mana, so really the big thing you're losing out on running, say, Castle Vantress over another Island is the basic land type, which can be important if you're running cards that care about basic land types like Caged Sun, Gush, Scourge of Fleets, etc
Green gives you many vanilla creature synergies, and many green and black cards relate to the creatures power, like Disciple of Bolas or Return of the Wildspeaker
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Akiri's first ability has you draw just one card per player you attack with an equipped creature, no matter how many equipped creatures you attack them with beyond the first and no matter how many Equipment that creature's carrying beyond the first