Heartwood Crafter // Soul Tether FRA 0105 · uncommon

Take it when

Choose it when prepared or flashback spells can use its restricted mana.

What to take next

Add useful prepared or flashback spells; count its Heartwood separately from the creature’s mana.

Wrong pick

Do not count the creature as general ramp for spells in your hand. Its mana can pay generic costs of abilities or spells cast elsewhere.

Mana & splash

You want green early; splashing a one-drop makes its acceleration less reliable. Its own Soul Tether also needs red or green.

Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.

Konstrari Improviser // Soul TetherIts prepared Soul Tether can use Crafter’s colorless mana for a generic cost; the resulting Heartwood has unrestricted RG mana.

Predictive PreparationsIts flashback spell is cast from the graveyard, so Crafter can pay a generic part of the cost.

What it needs

Prepared or flashback spells you actually want to cast; its own Soul Tether creates a Heartwood.

How to use it

Read its restriction: its mana cannot pay for an ordinary spell from your hand, but it can pay for abilities. Heartwood tokens themselves have a different, unrestricted RG mana ability.

Playing against it

Removing it before its mana or prepared spell is used cuts off the setup.

Pick-Two

Its own colorless mana cannot cast a spell from your hand. Prepared spells and flashback can use it; Heartwood tokens have a different, unrestricted mana ability.

Sealed vs Draft

Do not count it as a general-purpose mana creature for your seven-mana creature bombs.

Two-Headed Giant

Your teammate cannot cast your creature’s prepared spell; the permission belongs to that creature’s controller.