I mean, sure it costs you one more life to draw a card, but the versatility on offer is amazing, helping you out in virtually any situation or all but the most hopeless of board states
Should it be in your Avatar-themed deck, as long as the captain remembers your birthday
This means that if you cast a spell with demonstrate and both you and an opponent copy it, the opponent's copy will resolve first, then your copy will resolve, and finally the original spell will resolve
Then for extra bonus points are some tricky but powerful cards
While Magic has been changing the way they release Standard sets several times over the past couple of years, I believe that under the current format players of the original five colors would have 5 or 6 sets worth of cards to choose from, while Purple players would only have 1, at least at first
Typically, Standard burn decks will have more creatures than Modern or Legacy burn decks, since there are fewer playable burn spells available