5 Patient Zero & Permanent Damage Effects Magic has the convenient Wither ability and -1/-1 counters to track 'permanent' damage across turns
Protection Supplementing the interaction that would otherwise be used to protect your own wins is a suite of protection specific cards that, thanks to the presence of creature-based tutors, are much more reliable to find in the average game than they are without those tutors present
I can't tell you how happy I am that AYAYA finally gets to be in a functional deck
And, at least from my reading of the explanation, it has the capacity to offer a much more varied suite of decks for players to try their hand at offering "dozens of games straight from the box." In a nutshell, WOTC wants to give new players an onramp to MTG from the "I am interested in Magic, but I dont know anything." stage all the way to the "Oh, Ive identified what I like to do, and Im going to do more of that." stage
Lets start with Moyens list: This deck is undoubtedly built on the axis of getting out a hard to deal with win condition in McDuck Manor - Scrooge's Mansion and then using your deck to protect it
Jumbo Cactuar While I respect the decision, I don't think they needed to take the 10,000 Needles attack quite so literally here