There are a bunch of unanswered questions around maximizing companion, but Lurrus eliminates half the puzzle by naturally slotting in a bunch of homes without any real deckbuilding restrictions
Love this thing at the kitchen table in Commander loads
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A lot of balance and care goes into choosing the cost of a card, more than I can express here, but looking for similar effects on existing Magic cards can give you an idea of a fair costfor example, a ramp spell that puts two lands into play ought to cost 4 mana, per Explosive Vegetation
If you stick Curiosity on Niv-Mizzet then all you need to do is draw a card (which is something Niv is pretty damn good at) and then you go off, in a flurry of draws and pings
With Fangorn in play, unspent green mana doesn't disappear as phases and turns end, bypassing the main limitation of adding mana to the mana pool
