If any of these experiments pay off and Elspeth becomes part of a competitive deck, you can probably expect the price of this card to go up a bit
Red decks often force opponents to block in order to maintain their life total, so stacking first strike onto your attackers is one of the best things you can do
Reprint value in this one looks decent - Vanquisher's Banner is a must-have tribal card and Herald's Horn is also a shoe-in in countless creature-type decks
More often than not, Amethyst/Steel is the ultimate 50/50 deck that has game against every other deck in the metagame
However, the equipped creature will have indestructible before state-based actions are checked, so it won't be destroyed even if that damage would ordinarily be lethal
In Commander, being able to pitch the hand and draw four cards is incredible, especiallty in Grixis, the colors of reanimation