Aggressive strategies struggle to keep up with the life gain and any deck relying on creatures ends up faltering to Asmoras very impressive activated ability
That means they work with tiered spells and spells with flashback, such as Ice Magic and Laughing Mad
Also Nuclear Fallout is super sweet wipe in the deck that can actually double as a (somewhat janky) finisher since they will (eventually) lose an extra life each time we proliferate their rad counters
Worse, the other players never do quite what you want even though youve given them perfect clues
(6/16/2023) If the creature you choose as your Ring-bearer was already your Ring-bearer, that still counts as choosing that creature as your Ring-bearer for the purpose of abilities that trigger "whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer" or abilities that care about which creature was chosen as your Ring-bearer
Terashis Grasp Terashi's Grasp is basically a Limited card, and even if you have the potential to gain absurd amounts of life, youre still paying 3 mana at sorcery speed for that
