Its also fair to point out that WotCs design and test process wasnt nearly as advanced as it currently is, with sets being tested a few months prior to the release
The game usually ends when you get to 11+ mana for this card, so the boardstate clutter usually isnt an issue for too long
SQUARE ENIX CHARACTER DESIGN: TETSUYA NOMURA / ROBERTO FERRARI CHARACTER ILLUSTRATION: Miki Yamashita SKU: 4988601389792 Selected: FINAL FANTASY Card Sleeve Series Cloud (FFCSS-02)
Once I started playing with Codebreaker, the brew ideas didnt stop: I have something like 15 different Codebreaker decks written up in my phone to test, across all 4 color pairs and mono-red versions
Equally, it is pretty hard to kill her in combat, you need a very significant board advantage, or at least 5 power worth of evasion dorks, necessarily split up over at least two bodies due to the -3 ability on Elspeth
If you ever see someone discard two lands to Bandits Talent in the early game, its a great time to follow up with targeted discard whatever non-lands they hold are clearly worth protecting