The issue with a new idea like MTG Battle cards is that developers dont know how they will be received
Amassing all of those apparitions is particularly useful with the face Commander, Quintorius, History Chaser
Lets take a beat and look at what it takes to get a foil card here: If youre 5% to get a foil, thats 1/20, times the 121 options for foils (according to the Card Image Gallery, theres 9 white, 26 blue, 14 black, 18 red, 17 green, 5 multicolor, 25 artifacts, 7 lands) and that means to get a specific card, its one in 2,420 packs to get the specific foil you want
This means that the deck has a strong attack-focused strategy
Escape is a home-run mechanic in my books and I quite enjoy its return
Each opponent will sacrifice a creature each time one of those abilities resolves