It's visually flashy and always cool to watch
Lets take a look at a possible build of Mono-Blue Devotion utilizing this new trio: Creatures (27) 3 Thassa, God of the Sea 4 Master of Waves 4 Hypnotic Siren 4 Frost Walker 4 Stratus Dancer 4 Gudul Lurker 4 Shorecrasher Elemental Lands (25) Spells (8) Sideboard First of all, its very possible that playing three Thassa instead of four is outright insanity
Its around for a good time, not a long time
When modelling something like this, there are two ways to go about it: You can either use brute force, collecting a large enough statistical sample to build a model, or you can try and figure out the underlying mechanism
According to Riot, the game was originally planned as a way to tap into a Chinese audience, trickier to reach with an online video game
The sphinx is unplayable in any format other than Commander, but it's a cEDH staple