The deck's rise began with the support introduced in EB04, particularly EB04-038-rosinante-law and EB04-058-borsalino, two powerful Blockers that elevated the deck's defensive capabilities to a whole new level
If you look at the top decks in the format today, they are either playing big creatures like Eldrazi, Death's Shadow, and Gurmag Angler or combo-killing with Storm, Scapeshift, or Burn spells
The win condition usually involves casting and reanimating cards like Gray Merchant of Asphodel over and over, and they work well with this commander because you can recover the life youre spending to cast the spells
Her first ability is a wild one, Nontoken artifacts you control are lands in addition to their other types. This protects your artifacts from many of the most common removal spells in Commander, like Vandalblast, which can only target nonland permanents
Its still worth around $10, so its good to see another reprint
The worst is when you turn deck manipulation tricks against them: Brainstorm back the best two cards you can't get rid of, then use a Polluted Delta to shuffle them back in the deck