Ask your local store about Open Dueling at the Prerelease, and prepare to battle
The game plan revolves around attaching auras and equipment to the creatures that benefit from them, swinging for damage, and using disruptive and controlling instants to prevent damage, protect your board, and otherwise stay in the game
Terrarion I hadn't realized that a big part of why newer Chromatic Sphere cards draw when the card goes to the yard rather than on the activation trigger is to avoid the issues of having card draw effect tied in to "split second" style mana abilities
In fact, there are games where Panopticon gets flipped, and it sticks because everyone wants a Howling Mine out for a few turns
Nadir Kraken
In this Modern age of Magic set design, staying true to the flavor and story is very important to Wizards , which means if a card doesn't happen to be on theme for a set, it doesn't make it into the set, even if the card is potentially important for making Standard function as intended