Verdant Confluence

The green entry in the Confluence cycle, and the one whose three modes pull in directions that rarely converge on the same turn. The clause allowing you to choose the same mode more than once is where the reach comes from: spend all three picks on basics-only ramp to assemble a greedy manabase in a single cast, spend all three on recursion to reload three permanents from the yard, or split two-and-one to thicken a creature with four +1/+1 counters while doing one other thing. That flexibility is bought with a six-mana sorcery body, which drops the card into the stretch of green's curve already crowded with splashier finishers, so each cast poses the question of whether triple-flexibility outvalues a single focused payoff at the same price. None of the three modes is a standalone bomb, and that ceiling on any one line is the reason the card is never mandatory: the counters need a creature worth committing to, the recursion needs a graveyard worth raiding, and the ramp is basics-only, enters tapped, and shuffles. The design rewards a board that already has texture rather than manufacturing one from nothing. It plays best drawn in the midgame, when you can read the table and choose which split it actually demands, rather than as a piece you sequence toward in advance.