Ashe, Princess of Dalmasca is a bit on the slow side and only playable in decks with a high concentration of artifacts, but the payoff of filtered card draw when it attacks is high enough to want to support it
You'll be building up a board of pumped up creaturs coated in counters, and pouring all of the mana that your green ramp cards will help you generate into getting as much power out of your X spells as possible
Well, one way is to imagine a way that the game could have evolved, but didnt
I'm hoping to go to locals once some of my LGS announce their tournaments
And Wizards of the Coast was deep into the third act of the Zendikar block (2009 - 2010) , culminating in the set Rise of the Eldrazi , a Lovecraftian horror show filled with massive mana costs, Colorless spaghetti monsters, and mechanics that, quite frankly, slowed the game down to an Eldrazi's crawl
While black decks now dominate Standards post-rotation, Shivan Devastator has the opportunity to become a Standard all-star in time