The textured foil version of Mana Drain from the Breaking News element of the set means that it going to be extra rare, so the odds of opening this variant will be incredibly low
Due to its focus on creature types, it's been completely reinvented to focus on Slivers, Magic 's most infamous typal archetype
This gets harder the more colors you expect decks to have
You get so many extra turns off this blue creature that reaching the final level might as well win the game, assuming your fragile creature survives
The deck grows this army through powerful anthem effects (Glorious Anthem) and with counters (Feat of Resistance, Basri's Solidarity)
Elspeth, Storm Slayer Elspeth, Storm Slayer gets dropped into a Standard that's hostile to her mana value, but I think she might be good enough to see play anyway, Her abilities are great and work well together, but there are a ton of tools readily available in Standard that will work well with those abilities