When I approached these decks, my guiding principle was What does the uncommon Legend from the previous set look like now as the face of this deck? Its been a couple of years, there was a whole Phyrexian invasion, and these returning students are now much more powerful
Regardless, you cant play any of this without protecting your princess
8-cost Gecko Moria is an upgrade to this deck, which was also banned, so youre picking up a less optimal Leader that will struggle to keep up
The only time you actively want to play this rather than having to is when you have at least two other walls in your deck
Its still costly to actually cast the creature when the time comes to do it, plus having to bolt yourself for an untapped land is a high cost, so Im not quite on board with full-on staple status for this MDFC
And I want to celebrate Tibalt finally getting an actually good planeswalker card after being hailed as one of the worst planeswalkers out there