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Pitcher plants and rafflesiae!

For my first turn, I will play a forest. Then I will tap my forest. Then I will use my green mana to a 0/1 vanilla creature... essentially what you're doing. I suppose it's card advantage, however small that advantage might be.

I like this card. It comes in handy for my mono-green token deck.

A worthwhile bonus. If you're playing a Land, why not get a creature out of it?
Sure you could be just playing a 1/1 that only costs one green Mana though at the same time I like that it's an auto-plant token. There are plenty of uses for token creatures and that can't always be said about other non-token creatures you have on the battlefield.

Just as an example: If I play Jaddi Lifestrider...why tap my non-token creatures when I can just tap my abundance of tokens?

In any other green deck though...I probably wouldn't have this since I usually need immediate access to Mana.

hmmm... i wonder if its better than forest? i think not, but in not sure...

Way good in the right deck. Free blocker, can be enchanted with Fists of ironwood, can be used with overrun.

Actually, this card is probably best in Polymorph decks; you get fodder for the Polymorph without having weak creature to risk hitting instead of your Emrakul. Its not bad in non-combo decks too, especially ones that don't necessarily need to be playing an on-curve spell on the first few turns.

@danagelh: Card advantage isn't "small" or "big." One card always equals one card. This is card advantage.

The plant token has many uses. Rancor is my favorite.