Before I talk about the Blue cards and show you my Bant deck, though, I want to talk about one advantage to leaving the Ghired deck as-is, and that advantage addresses a shortcoming of the Populate mechanic
We can do far better at this mana value than this artifact creature
Purple Character
While Surprise Attack is always acceptable, I would generally rather have the slot filled with a card that is either more versatile or can perform a specific role better, in Dark Draft (in constructed it is usually the first 3 cards I add when I want to include 0-cost Wild cards)
Many Final Fantasy heroes and villains got this style of art treatment in the set, with a solid color background and the Roman numeral of the game theyre from positioned right behind the character
FromTheShire: With Domain being a sizeable portion of the current Modern meta in addition to the random inclusions in other decks like Omnath, Locus of Creation I expect this to see some testing in Burn sideboards