A sideboard juke threat is only necessary in games where Nadu gets The Stone Brain or otherwise extracted
Not serious at all
Elspeth, Storm Slayer's static ability is a doubling card (Mark Rosewater's favorite), so there's no doubt this Planeswalker will be one of the most valuable cards from the set
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Its Devouring Flames lets you discard energy from your opponents deck, which lets you adopt a strategy that disrupts your opponents setup before it even gets going
Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total