Thats a lot for two mana, and the fact that Spreading Seas replaces itself by drawing you a card gives it a reasonably high floor even if it doesnt end up messing with your opponent too much
Grabby Giant: Two pretty interesting effects on a Reach body makes this a viable budget pick
Getting to double up the damage to one player from my Dragon could be lights out for them
Alongside gorgeous art that depicts the city both in its heyday and as ruins, Zanarkand features the Town type for land, which will be sure to raise some eyebrows
Reach is one of the better abilities in EDH, given how prevalent flyers are, and how the monarch mechanic becomes more relevant over time
You get to put +1/+1 counters on it whenever you cast a creature, and since mutating counts as casting, you get to put a counter on your commander and grow it biggerto then cast more mutate spells