I've had the idea in my head since I learned about altering and found Pacifism
Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph
Over time, a lot of cards that go into blue-based combo decks have gotten the axe
Once Essence Channeler has been blocked by a creature without flying or reach, losing life to give it flying and vigilance won't cause it to become unblocked
Fortunately, as is the case for Academy and Workshop you typically play lots of artifacts in the sorts of decks that abuse many of these cards and as such you should have a pretty reliable Mox Opal, typically online from turn two in unpowered cubes and turn one in the powered
By adding a new enchantment subtype and having those enchantments scale like a tribal deck, the Champions of Kamigawa team captured the imagination of casual players so thoroughly as to justify the eventual revisiting of Shrines in M21 , including the long-awaited five-color Shrine to Rule Them All. But crowd-pleasing designs like that are only commonplace in 2021 because of what WotC learned from experiments like the Hondens back in 2004