Rarity: M #:611 Card Type: Artifact Flavor: Ive seen my share of baubles, minister
The good news for the aftermath cards is that flashback is an extremely powerful mechanic, since it not only generates card advantage but also allows for some tricks to generate value only from the graveyard (a good example of this is Gnaw to the Bone in Dredge, which doesn't really plan on drawing and casting the card from its hand but instead just attempts to mill it into the graveyard and cast it with flashback)
it does very little against their deck and you need your Aether Vials online so you can use your lands to attack theirs at every opportunity
With over 27,000 different cards printed (and counting) printed over the history of Magic: The Gathering , anyone who claims to know exactly how all of them work is probably not telling the whole truth
Instead, what I saw when I played Expanded was a format with many different strategies
Then you gain 3 life if that player has more life than each other player