Deflecting Swat Deflecting Swat is also here to stay
One can play around Daze but it is often more damaging to do so than to run right into it
Then you can exile a graveyard and gain a bunch of life, ramp out two lands of any type not just basics tapped, make a pair of 2/2 Bear tokens, or toss a pair of counters on all of your stuff for the going wide, and with the Bears as a default that's two 4/4s for six mana on a naked board

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Corrupted As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters, creatures you control with toxic have lifelink
The other reason for Cunning Sparkmage is the cheap cost and haste