First, he's a very solid addition to the many blue-oriented, artifact-love archetypes that see a ton of play at the kitchen table
Type cycling Scourge had introduced basic land cycling, where you could cycle your cards and instead of getting a random card, you searched your library for a specific basic land
Lorcana Rise of the Floodborn sapphire cards Alice, Growing Girl Winnie the Pooh, Having a Think Mrs Judson, Housekeeper Cogsworth, Grandfather Clock Cruella De Vil, Perfectly Wretched Gaston, Intellectual Powerhouse Grand Pabbie, Oldest and Wisest People who enjoy a nice mixture of both old and new Disney will find a lot to love in Rise of the Floodborns sapphire cards, including references to 101 Dalmatians, Alice in Wonderland and The Great Mouse Detective, as well as more modern fare such as Frozen and Zootropolis (known as Zootopia in the US)
They also offer some powerful abilities as a major upside when they enter the battlefield
Rile is good in Stuffy Doll decks, but also works in decks with Feather, the Redeemed as their Boros commander, as a cantrip that can target Feather
(2025-06-06) Removing lore counters won't cause a previous chapter ability to trigger
