Still nothing to write home about it, but its okay if you can fetch it with Teferi's Wavecaster
Naturally, that's not the case when it comes to the competitive scene
The hybrids had cheaper costs that you could play early, often when you might not have drawn both colors of mana, and the traditional gold cards had higher costs, usable at a time when you most likely have drawn both colors
Because of Kaladesh , R&D had been looking at how to get more colored artifacts into the game, and our early research into the Eldraine trope space showed us that the set wanted more artifacts than normal
Im a big sucker for a cool sword that has narrative significance or a special ability, so Im always interested when a new sword makes its way into Magic
Because Tom Bombadils ability will be giving you random sagas, youre going to have to be a little more reactive than proactive with some of your strategy in this deck once you have everything set up