Putting a scry on an Ajanis Pridemate is a marked improvement
In that sort of a role Remand is the vastly more desirable card, you want countermagic to deal with stuff cheaply and efficiently, you play card advantage spells to provide the late game inevitability and so you are just harming your own disruptive power by trying to combine the two into one overcost card
Star Athlete: One of the better new cards, as his ability to play politics, be a punisher, and be an early evasive threat are all valued
Devouring Hellion has Devour 2, but unlike Thorn-Thrash Viashino, can also eat Planeswalkers
Any non-targeted black removal will kill a protection from black creature
for a Tarmogoyf, the price is an unwanted consequence, but for a Fable token, the price is the point