We guess the team decided more well-rounded decks are more important than newer cards a good call in our opinion
The upside of a zero card cost 3/2 is hardly impressive payoff
To qualify, your main attacker absolutely needs to have these two traits: Firstly, it must be able to set up quickly, and secondly, it needs to do a lot of damage
Simba - Adventurous Successor and Hypnotic Strength are both great cards for raising the Strength stats on other cards, as when they are played, the player can add +2 Strength to a chosen character
I dont like this quite as much as Aven Mindcensor because it isnt quite as devastating when it works sure, your opponent doesnt get their creature trigger, but they still get the creature, and most of the enters-the-battlefield triggers youre looking to stop (in Modern, anyway) are infinite combos that they can just try again once they find a removal spell for your one-toughness creature
Instead, it's a new deck, known as Esper Self-bounce, which has driven the surge of interest in this card