when you resolve a mass polymorph with at least 4 creatures on the board, stack the triggers when your fatties hit the board so that the terastodons blow everything up on your opponents side, and then the wurms kill the 6 elephants, dealing at least 24 damage to them.
mortarpod is spot removal for signal pests, lotus cobras, viscera seers etc, and works beautifully with awakening zone.