If you play it on Turn 1, your opponent either spends a removal spell on your one-mana 1/1, which pretty much guarantees youre trading up, or you get to untap and ramp into 4 available mana on Turn 3
Menace Jecht, Reluctant Guardian // Braska's Final Aeon Rarity: Rare TYPE: Legendary Creature // Legendary Enchantment Creature SUBTYPE: Human Warrior // Saga Nightmare CMC: 4 Mana cost: USD: $1.12 EUR: 1.23 TIX: 0.02 EDHREC RANK: 6684 (4/3) Menace Whenever Jecht deals combat damage to a player, you may exile it, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control
Originally abused with Vesuva in its Standard days, this mechanic is pretty valuable, allowing you to abuse the legend rule to fix your mana while thinning your deck
Marcy: Greg's (Sorry, Gilgamesh's) self-sacrifice in FFV
We lack the Sol lands that enable its early deployment in Legacy and Vintage (although Simian Spirit Guide does its best impression), but a format as efficient as Modern certainly boasts a large number of one-dropsmaking Chalice a potential ten-for-one (or more!) against any number of strategies