For example, if you control a creature with a tap ability, you could activate that ability in response to an opponents spell or during combat, even on their turn
Persist is lovely too but a 5/5 trample really isn't closing out a game
Why Bother Going In Person
Intimidate is an update of the fear ability, and would go on to be replaced by menace, which is now the only iteration of this kind of combat evasion
This is not one of my more pricey lists, but if you wanted to trim the budget down you could probably save $100 USD just by dropping Coat of Arms, Cyclonic Rift, Necroduality, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and Rhystic Study
I dumped all of my old stuff earlier this year just to get the space back