Thankfully, the deck has some powerful reprints to make up for this, including Jeska's Will, Xenagos, the Reveler and Laelia, the Blade Reforged
It slots nicely into Treasure decks to take advantage of cashing those tokens in for mana, and its elf creature type helps it fit into Lathril, Blade of the Elves token decks
It also benefits a ton from adding in cards from the main set, such as the main set version of Neriv, as the one in Mardu Surge is fairly useless to the strategy
(Or destroying all of your Mountains I suppose.) For the game, you get in extra hit after extra hit, piling on more and more damage that you would not have benefited from otherwise
Many of these expensive staples can be easily replaced with cards that either provide admirable imitations or can fill a similar role
October 30, 2020 4:13 p.m