There are many reasons why Spider-Man ended up flopping, and we've talked about them at length in the past: the last-minute changes, the small set size, focusing too much on one character, and not acquiring the digital rights so Magic Arena and Magic Online got the weird reskins of the Spider-Man cards
If Watchful Radstag leaves the battlefield before its last ability resolves, the token will still enter the battlefield as a copy of Watchful Radstag, using Watchful Radstag's copiable values from when it was last on the battlefield
While they are worth a mention, I did not include any cards with escalate in my final draft
Decks that often play Wasteland include tempo decks like Delver that require very little mana or decks with Life from the Loam and other ways to recur it
Wrap Up Ashiok, Dream Render | Illustration by Uta Natsume Hybrid mana is the MTG mechanic (or tool) that Mark Rosewater himself is the proudest of, so, let's be honest here who am I to disagree