It was just another deck in the format, and was a pretty big underdog to decks with a lot of interaction (Jund, Abzan, etc.)
The flame was hitting the Aven to demonstrate that it was immune to it (as it had protection from red), but too many people were reading it as if the Aven was harmed, so we decided to move it to a red direct-damage spell
I used the BCW Card House system
I recently wrote a piece on budget decks that featured Trelasarra, if youre looking for some inspiration
Thanks to the nature of XIV, which kind of encompasses everything, some characters, like Shinryu, were represented by XIV instead of V
At their worst they eat a ping and cost you tempo and often value too