Alpha has an extreme drop-off in value between VG/SP and NM, and you should never forget that when trading for cards form the set
The adjustments over the past few years have addressed many of the largest pain points, particularly around the value disparity of collecting cards through Draft versus opening packs, but we still have some areas to iterate on
By combining these points across all events, each archetype's share of the total rectified net wins blends popularity and performance into a single, comprehensive metric: the winner's metagame share
If you have a bunch of mana, you can always answer pretty much anything on the battlefield (not including planeswalkers)
It has decent stats for those the early game rumbles and even helps you discard cards for their effects
Lady Loki deals damage to each opponent equal to the difference between that spell's mana value and that nonland card's mana value