There were some pretty good Black Friday sales, but if you missed that, Id still hold off on buying into Standard for another couple of weeks
Time Vault has a complicated history, having gone through several erattas and updates to the text to get it to work the way it was intended
While Merfolk Secretkeeper and Wall of Lost Thoughts might be a bigger body to cushion blows, their milling ability only triggers once
It's an X-cost spell where you can plug in mana to give a creature -X/-X stats, perhaps killing it instantly or else helping you to win a combat
Maybe its the elegant flavor baked into every Curse
The synergy in this Starter Deck is impressive, and upon first glance it seems like the Deck with more depth, though initial looks can be deceiving