mtg esper commander deck Standard Control - Guide and lifelink until end of turn. Esper Deck Commanders? : r/EDHBrews

It still beats the vanilla creature test, but so do many more cards in the modern age

As a card, Vaan, Street Thief doesnt seem terrible, but it requires too much support that we just cant provide in a Limited environment

Odric, Lunarch Marshal and Bleeding Effect are both great build-arounds, especially with Dihada able to hand out keywords like candy

Summary Shift powerful characters early with ease using cards like Gramma Tala or Peter Pan in Into The Inklands

Veyran, Voice of Duality and Rootha, Mercurial Artistboth want you to cast spells so that you can either buff em up, or get copies

Here's the Corrupting Influence deck and the Reborn from the Rebellion product listings