A strategy revolving around adding time counters or delaying your opponents suspended spells is just about as niche and specific as you can get, which makes it much more of a sideboard plan
Which might also explain why some of Magics top influencers are receiving edible gingerbread men in the mail lately
Whiskervale Forerunner is a fantastic valiant payoff
The new Ral adds a fun wrinkle when he flips into his planeswalker form and lets you play a bunch of spells for free, but the deck's win condition is a Storm staple Grapeshot, or else the new Unstable Amulet which can slowly ping a player to death
Now sure, like Nekrataal, there might be times when you really wanted to get a better class of card, but youll always get something you can run
They also happen to be sagas, and work exactly like sagas do