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Whisperwood Elemental vs Shamanic Revelation

Long time no see! It feels so nice to write about MTG again.

The cards I want to review today:

Shamanic Revelation

Sorcery
Draw a card for each creature you control.
Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater

Whisperwood Elemental

Creature - Elemental
At the beginning of your end step, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card)
Sacrifice Whisperwood Elemental: Until end of turn, face-up, nontoken creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, manifest the top card of your library."

Both 5 mana cards are green, one provides conditional draw advantage, the other serves as a response to mass removals that do not exile creatures. 

I like the green elemental more.

Giving a 2/2 creature every end of turn is an advantage less conditional than card drawing based on number of creatures. In this Standard, creatures decks are confronted with too many removals that I rarely see 3 or more creatures standing firmly for 2 turns, so the green revelation does nothing but drawing you 2-3 cards at most. Maybe its life gaining effect is good in some situations, I'm not sure about that.

Besides, upon getting swept by End Hostility-like cards, a player controls the elemental can at least get two to three 2/2s ready to attack the following turn. The power level of its anti removal can be, in some way, less than Thragtusk or the undying Geist cards during ISD standard but it's indeed what green decks desperately needs today.

In decks with Elemental, I think Chord of Calling may regain some value. Now, the only mass removal that can deal with Elemental is Perilous Vault. Getting rid of Vault, Green decks may use Chord to search for Reclamation Sage.

Nassa is also benefited by this green elemental. For countless time, my 4/4 lands got swept by End Hostility. As lands are not token, they are protected against mass removals.

 Still, two things made me feel uncertain. For one, I don't think GR or Mono green decks using this 5 cmc creature can beat the rising UB control decks. Nearly all UB's counterspells and removals are able to devastate it. Another thing is that Rhino, the most popular creature has 5 toughness. We definitely need something to overcome Rhino and all other 5 toughness blockers.

 Not too surely, I would say Jund decks may come back to stand up against UB and Rhino decks. I am making a Jund list by this week end. Time to sleep now, good luck to you all in the prerelease!
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