Though Thieving Aven is the weakest card with heist, the mechanic is so strong it still stands as one of the best cards in Alchemy: Thunder Junction
Opening Packs Wisely While it might be tempting to open packs as soon as you get them, if you're looking for specific cards, it's often more efficient to wait
The ability to pay mana and ping each opponent isn't incredibly powerful, but it is a way to keep things rolling in decks such as Rakdos, Lord of Riots or the more recent Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin without having to have spells or other nonland permanents around to help generate life loss
I get how it could make sense that Wizards could keep releasing everything they had been releasing, but also release other products for different players without interfering with the existing infrastructure, but thats not really how it works
After you get past figuring out how to make the technology work, you want to figure out how to design it such that it's the most appealing and aesthetic to its user that it can be
When you cast it, you get to gain control of a creature in play and then turn it into a 10/10, give it trample, annihilator 2 and haste until the end of the turn