By drawing cards you accrue more resources, and you have better odds of finding your best resources
Whether you go with the more expensive living weapon equipment or the cheaper sword, these are both colorless ramp pieces that give non-green decks access to acceleration they otherwise might not have
1-mana counterspells often get people excited though, and this blue instant could bump up a number of decks in Constructed formats as well as see cEDH play, #34
It sounds fairly ambitious, as these things do, so it'll be interesting to see how it fares come the summer.
This is often done by either altering its stat lines, changing its mana value, or making its abilities weaker
The most expensive Ascended Heroes cards include the Mega Gengar ex Special Illustration Rare often mistakenly attributed to Phantasmal Flames along with other top SIRs across the 295-card set