Where Mai really shines, however, is against Combo decks
It loves the party mechanic
Rather than challenging your opponent directly, the game plan is to get more value from your board than your opponent can from theirs, faster - while also using tricks to disrupt them and Bodyguards to protect your more important characters
The card does not provide any value on entry unless there are other enablers available, and the Cactuar does not have Trample
With Oswalds Favorable Chance ability, every time you put a card in your inkwell you can choose to reveal the top card of your deck
UnStable s legendary creatures all have this very careful, sober feel to their card design, which in hindsight seems as though Wizards was trying to get them Rule Zerod into casual Commander without actually making them black border