This one may not have any passive abilities, but its moves do allow you to either beef up this Pokemon or force your opponent into a tricky situation
Octavia's deck needs cheap, useful instants and sorceries to turn its creatures into 8/8 attackers, and spells like Opt and Frantic Search easily replace themselves to keep the momentum going
Battle Pack offers a different breed of challenge, forcing players to win with either a 50-card deck made instantly in Sealed Play or make their own 45-card deck from random boosters in Draft Play
Hour of Devastation wasnt even fully released, and it would mostly be impacting Standard, and Id settled on Burn or Lantern for the event, so talking about other decks didnt seem helpful
These changes are going to take yearsdont expect to see them all in the next few months, but you will see things here and there. The next example well see of these experiments is coming in Commander Legends in the form of Keeper of the Accord, which was revealed during todays panel: Keeper of the Accord may not address the card draw portion of strengthening White, but it takes the Land Tax and Knight of the White Orchid form of ramp that already exists in White and scales it up to be even more powerful in multiplayer Commander games
For example, a couple of weeks ago we covered Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus' spike, which went up for the similar reason than Power Conduit But with Counter Intelligence Commander precon now fully revealed, and including a Tekuthal reprint, this blue creature will very likely tank in price
