People round here seem convinced that green needs help. Hey, I love green, but lately it's been a house. So long as Mirrodin green is on par with Odyssey green, it won't need any help. Holy crap was Odyssey block good for green, and Onslaught block wasn't too thin itself. Since Odyssey, let's name all the solid stuff Green's picked up.
Wild Mongrel
Basking Rootwalla
Spellbane Centaur
Genesis
Roar of the Wurm
Beast Attack
Call of the Herd
Elvish Warrior
Wirewood Hivemaster
Arrogant Wurm
Vitality Charm - (Only because an instant speed 1/1 for 1 is better than you'd think).
Overrun, (Yeah, I know, it was a reprint, but it's still very underrated).
Caller of the Claw, (HELLLOOOOO! I'd play an instant speed 2/2 for three mana even if it didn't give me bears. Though I would expect it to be common.)
Ravenous Baloth
Living Wish
Naturalize
Krosan Tusker
That Green Kamahl
Phantom Centaur
Erhnam Djinn
Treetop Scout
Squirrel Nest
Centaur Glade
Sprouting Vines
And there's more, not to mention that a lot of the second teir stuff isn't that bad at all.
Green has the tools to breakthrough control match-ups easy, you just have to know what you're doing. And as you might has guessed from my comments, instant speed creatures can steal tempo from your opponent. It's a highly underrated ability.
Opponent: I'll Wrath of God, seeing as how you got a bajillion critters out by turn 4.
Me: Okay, at the end of your turn I'll Beast Attack. Heh heh.
Not to mention green has some solid tools from older sets, though they were more sparse than they were in Odyssey and Onslaught.
Wall of Blossoms
Blastoderm
Yavimaya Elder
Spike Feeder
Rancor
Treetop Village
Jolrael's Centaur
Blurred Mongoose
Priest of Titania
etc.
And yes, what I'm about to say might offend some of you, but if you think green needs help, (In Extended and Type 2 anyway), you probably lack good deck designing capacity.
