Read a Book lets you play an additional card into your inkwell each turn, aligning with Sapphires skill at ramping in a manner that reminds of Belles voracious appetite for reading, while My Favorite Part! makes her a game-ending threatonce youve read enough, Belles ability to quest for five lore is unsurpassed
The Angels like Twilight Shepherd and Angel of Serenity give you some resiliency to removal, and the key is that they return the cards to your hand so you can cast them again and hopefully get more Oketra triggers
Also note that the first mode costs hybrid mana, so you can cast it by paying , , or
Elenda, the Dusk Rose is an incredibly efficient token generator, getting stronger anytime any creature dies, and then turning them into more tokens for you when she dies
Every other Angel you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter for each Angel you already control so the more Angels you have, the bigger each new one enters
To understand why, we need to take a journey back to 2002