While Modern Horizons 2 certainly took the 'bigger, better, flashier' method of approaching a follow-up to 2019's wildly successful Modern Horizons, it did so at the expense of multiple formats, warping entire years' worth of meta games around the cards introduced in this set
Only thing keeping him from being straight up pack filler is he is a potential Shift target for the Floodborn Merlin
But theres a higher power version of this deck for cEDH which plays either very few or no other creatures besides Glint-Horn Buccaneer, which you find with Polymorph or by wheeling through your deck
If the creature targeted by the first loyalty ability can't attack for any reason (such as being tapped), then it doesn't attack
This is a sneaky little gag, a reference to Hildibrand's ridiculous quest chain, which goes all the way from 'Hildibrand Adventures' to ' Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures'
Murmuring Mystic I often finding myself cutting this from Izzet spellslinger tokens decks because its so much harder to cast in those shells as a 4-drop, but Murmuring Mystic is kinda cool doing the same kind of job in mono-blue or Azorius in decks like Octavia, Living Thesis, Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart, and my newest obsession, Zethi, Arcane Blademaster
