A lot of mana dorks are very budget-friendly these days, too, with classics like Llanowar Elves and Elvish Mystic available as low as $0.20 and $0.30, respectively
Good pair of mana making dorks for formats all up and down the block
There is a way to template the ability so that it technically reads a little more blue (for example, instead of preventing the casting, it could allow it and then counter it) but it would just have been significantly wordier and would have had the same basic effect
It's since been errataed, but if you ever find yourself in a game where your Floral Spuzzem needs to make a choice, Spuzzem Strategist will help you get out of it
You can pay three mana to give all of your creatures +1/+0 until the end of the turn, but the main ability is that Purphoros will deal two damage to each opponent every time a creature enters on your side of the battlefield