When opponents are at fewer than 40 cards remaining in their libraries, you can use the lifegain to kill them really easily
When considering upgrades for this deck, Grand Arbiter Augustine IV is worth a look-in owing to how it reduces the cost of your blue and white spells, and (rather cruelly) taxes your opponents for every spell they cast
So for 6 mana you get to destroy a creature and then virtually guarantee someone kills your saga creature because nobody is going to want to just get aced
This is the most famous serialized Magic card ever, never mind just in the set, and it somewhat overshadows the rest
Vanishing Verse isn't a slam dunk, "play four of this in all of your reactive decks" kind of card, but that's okay
All that withstanding, there have been some exceptional pieces of art released in the last nine months, from names on this list (looking at you Pancoast), names that will one day be on this list (youre killing it Martina), and names that should be on this list but I ran out of space (cheers, Victor)