Unlike a one-on-one format like Modern, you've gotta get the most out of each card your play
You can play it fairly, too, but the looming threat of a big firebending number will always have people on edge
Noncreature Spells Matter Theres a smaller number of mono-blue cards that care about any noncreature spells, but the ones that do are heavy hitters
New Horizons Theres something exciting that can happen during this brewing process
In other words, when you are ready to improve this deck, this critter should be one of the first to go
The Quiet Years (20002003) After the disasters that were Urza's block and Tempest block, Wizards seemed to learn their lesson and change philosophies when it came to Standard: rather than printing any crazy thing that popped into their head, they would actually try to design cards in a way that would reduce (and hopefully eliminate) the need to ban cards in Standard