This also works in a more late-game control deck, draining your opponents Lore and subtly slowing down their game plan
Betor, Kin to All may not be the most popular Abzan Commander, but few Legendary Creatures in the wedge can threaten to cut everyone's life totals in half with a single trigger while presenting lethal amounts of power on board
701.25d: An ability that triggers whenever a player surveils triggers after the process described in rule 701.25a is complete, even if some or all of those actions were impossible.
And getting absolutely nothing from an entire card feels personally less satisfying than being punishedYusri always provides something when you alter the game state, and one bad flip is more than worth one good flip
"Look, I drafted Human control!" "Wow, UR Wizards can be really good when the right enablers show up." I've been down the incidental tribal road before
BPhillipYork: This enables a whole deck around discarding and replaying, essentially giving madness to everything in your deck, though, obviously it's mayhem