It also dumps a handful of cards into the graveyard, which is critical for hard graveyard decks with Narcomoeba, Prized Amalgam, and Creeping Chill as well as softer graveyard decks with delirium or delve synergies
It might look like the blue player isnt doing much when they cast a mid game Frantic Search or Thirst for Meaning between bigger draws, but these cards are often the glue that holds together the burstier or more productive draw engines
2019-01-25 The trigger event doesn't have to specifically refer to creatures. In these cases, the trigger event may also refer to something being put into a graveyard from the battlefield. For example, an ability that triggers whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield would trigger twice if an artifact creature dies while Teysa Karlov is on the battlefield.
In my eyes it could have done with some better trigger/free card draw as youre already having to color fix and tap out most of the time just to get permanents on board and often times you simply dont have the mana left to cast cards like Abzan Charm or Sultai Charm
When an opponent leads on a Swamp , you expect something disruptive, maybe a Thoughtseize , maybe a fast reanimation setup, but rarely something harmless
