Magic gets expensive
Teval, Arbiter of VirtueTeval, Arbiter of Virtue helps with neither, and actually adds an additional downside to the mechanic, since it forces you to pay life whenever you cast a spell
This alone is a fairly decent answer to cards with toughness of two or less, while also getting around the targeted aspect so that it can damage warded creatures
Crippling Overspecialization: Due to card weaknesses working differently from the games, this actually works to the player's advantage (taking on the Rock and Fire masters with nothing but Grass- and Water-types is just unfair)
You dont know if youre going to draw the Reanimate, so you need to carefully consider if its worth discarding the Archon and exposing it to graveyard hate without knowing when the reanimation spell is coming
In many matchups, this card alone determined which player could leverage superior sequencing and resource multiplication