Nizzahon ranks four burn spells as worse than Kamahl's Sledge
Icon of Ancestry Icon of Ancestry combines an anthem effect, which is something that you already want in typal decks, with a form of card advantage
In parallel, there is another layer of demand driven by factors outside of gameplay: cards sought after for collecting , for being illustrated by a particular artist, for being a misprint , or for being part of a cycle
First, it ties card drawing to growth, because the creature gets a +1/+1 counter for each card drawn
It's just solataire, of course, but at the end of round 5, I had: 11/12 Gyre Sage 7/6 Renegade Krasis 6/6 Swarm Shambler 9/9 Experiment One 12/11 Avatar of the Resolute 12/13 Voracious Hydra and
While you can technically play this fairly, nobody will believe you, and you probably have a combo in the deck you didnt know about anyway