This makes Corpse Knight more flexible than most Zombie creature cards
According to the rules the process of casting creature cards (or any other non-land cards) consists of the following stages: you put a creature card on the stack, define its total casting cost and it locks in, then you get a chance to activate mana abilities (but only if the total cost requires mana), and, finally, you pay the cost

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Tribute to the World Tree Tribute to the World Tree is very strong in mono green decks and devotion decks
You might not run them, but there are so many good spells available in Cube, you can make a couple of speculative picks with high upside and be fine when they don't pan out