She can siphon life from your opponents, allow you to draw cards, and even exile enemy creatures and enchantments and allow you to make copies of them
While Dagger is fighting to protect Alexandria, Zidane's group makes its way from the surrounding town towards the castle to help her
Paying six Energy allows you to spin the wheel, cheating in any card on the top six cards of your library
And to give you an idea of how critical he was to the team, when we were getting new desks and I was asked about any requirements for where my new desk would be, one of my requirements was "I need to sit next to Hindy." Hindy, along with Andrew Brown and Jadine Klomparens, did a fantastic job figuring out what this set would mean for Standard and worked with the whole Play Design team to put it through its paces
On the other hand, when the expected value of a set is low, it's really, really difficult to justify the expense of enjoying the productspending $45 on a draft when you have a reasonable expectation of getting $40 of Magic cards means the draft only really cost you $5 and you had a ton of fun along the way, while spend $45 on a draft when you'll probably only get $10 of cards is a fairly expensive evening out
If you sacrifice it, you get to destroy an artifact, enchantment, or even proliferate, making it an excellent choice for counter-based decks
