Against decks without a focus on permanents (say, an Izzet burn deck built around Guttersnipe), Lavinia and the detain cards tend to whiff and just become overcosted creatures with no valuable upside
At the beginning of combat on your turn, Mishra creates a 4/4 Construct token copy of one of your non-creature artifacts, which gains haste and is sacrificed at the end of the turn
As part of the game's most recent reveal stream, Magic: The Gathering Strixhaven mechanics were on full display, and an exciting new one in the form of Learn and Lesson cards looks poised to inform deckbuilding decisions in interesting ways
I wanted a tribal deck, but not to have to play a ton of generic tribe-buffing permanents
As long as you target your legends, the casting and equip costs are equal to the famous Swiftfoot Boots, even if the ward is less stellar than hexproof
Two key points here are that it puts rad counters onto players without combat, and can add them turn after turn