why do some mtg cards have white borders Are Gold-Bordered Magic Worth Anything? that player discards his or her hand. Anyone Else Prefer White Borders?

Your Ninjutsu abilities are one fewer colorless to activate, which is pretty nice and it pumps other Ninja and Rogues by +1/+1 making it a powerful tribal Lord

I do have one issue with Savage BeatingSavage Beating in ElshaElsha specifically, however

You can find these cards in non-foil or traditional foil in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters

Knowing this should influence all your other strategic decisions

When you can transform a card depends on the card itself

Simic StOmPy Might Have Been Too Repetitive With Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, and Gilded Goose all at the one, Simic StOmPy could play a hyper-reliable first couple of turns