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They give each card a grade and return them back to you

It also turns that Blossoming Defense into an extra draw 2 for one green mana

The Lotus requires nontoken permanents, or, at least, permanents with mana symbols on them

It doesn't exactly put permanents into play the same way other cheat cards do, but you could easily read it as pay 12 life, put a 12-mana creature into play, and the outcome is roughly the same

it's good enough that you could play it in a non-Elemental deck if you wanted to, but restricted enough that you're not just ignoring large pieces of text on the card to windmill slam a bomb into your 99