Elminster also makes a Jeskai deck featuring Nahiri, the Harbinger and a large creature like Emrakul, the Aeons Torn very attractive
But given that Thousand Moons Smithy comes down and makes a Karn-struct thats reasonably large right away in an affinity deck and then also likely flips the next turn, this seems like a nice artifacts top end, especially because Barracks of the Thousand is an artifact land
Its true that most of Magic s iconic ritual effects are instants or sorceries, but is that all they can be
Black has intimidate and swampwalk
If a permanent enters with counters on it, the effect causing the permanent to be given counters may specify which player puts those counters on it
Im most excited, however, to mess around with the huge range of new possibilities for the Grass decks, combining Serperior and Exeggutor