Each player plays with a deck of 99 unique cards, led by a Legendary Creature: the Commander
The flavor wins make it onto the interesting sorceries and instants, including Reprieve, which is (almost) a two-mana white counterspell, and You Cannot Pass that can destroy blocked creatures
The clips begin with what appear to be boxes of Pokmon packs strewn on the ground, with seeming violence as people try to pick them up and put them in bags
It costs one more than Thran Dynamo, yes, but it also lets you eventually get access to ludicrous amounts of extra mana, more than you could ever dream of having access to
So getting 2 or maybe 3 Lore out of her when she Quests would be worth having her on the list
While most of these cards reward you for sacrificing creatures, you can go even deeper with cards that trigger when you sacrifice a creature or when a creature dies