You need to be careful with the fact that this format can be pretty fast and ensure you have defensive creatures as well
When you gain life, she gets a free explore
Its easy to look at this and see it as a trick with multiple modes and that is what it is, but reducing a creature to 1/1 or growing a creature to 4/3, or turning a clue into a 4/3, while possibilities is only useful situationally
1 Mana Drain Mana Drain could easily hold the title of the best counterspell ever printed in Magic: The Gathering
Invasion of Regatha // Disciples of the Inferno also isn't a slouch, with very good trigger upsides that directly synergizes with the front facing effect
Although the team was far from convinced that purple was the right call, everyone was at least on board with giving it a try, so plans were set in motion for a set to be created and a draft to occur