You could technically run it without explicit artifact support, but you'll need to get the brunt of your energy from other sources to make use of her abilities
If I play three creatures, and then you kill them all with a Wrath of God, you've got card advantage: You used a single card to get rid of three of mine
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Winota offers players the option include both non-human and human creatures into their gameplan, which definitely makes it a unique card
In fact, Id be building my Gruul decks in these directions, ignoring more aggressively slanted creatures like Gruul Spellbreaker in favor of going big: Creatures (25) 4 Llanowar Elves 2 Rekindling Phoenix 4 Thrashing Brontodon 1 District Guide 2 Ravager Wurm 4 Skarrgan Hellkite 4 Growth-Chamber Guardian 4 Incubation Druid Planeswalkers (1) Lands (24) Spells (10) Sideboard I went conservative on the mana with only two copies of Rekindling Phoenix so we can get more early green for mana creatures, but I also like loading up on Thrash because Threat fills the four slot in the curve that in the ideal case well skip over anyway