It also keeps Hydro-Man safe from sorcery-speed removal and board wipes, though it removes it as a blocker, so theres some trade-off for your forbidden blue ramp
Both weasly 2/2 bodies that are more utility than beatdown
Rhoda, Geist Avenger + Timin, Youthful Geist I applaud Wizards for expanding the design space around tapper effects in blue and white, but they're often just not strong enough to justify an entire deck themed around them
Gone are the days when Savannah Lions or Serra Angel were the best creatures most good creatures nowadays have a wall of text and create interactive gameplay beyond just its baseline stats
Decks with a high density of cantrips and other velocity-granting effects are able to play preposterously low land counts for their curve, a principle first put into practice by Alan Comer and his Turbo Xerox deck over twenty years ago
The value of X in Jyoti's last ability is calculated only once, as Jyoti's ability resolves