Payoff Milling cards is fun, but its easy to forget that we are doing it to set up the early pressure and overwhelm the opponent before they can do anything about it
Cards that let your creatures deal damage based on their toughness dont affect their power, so all your 0/4s and 0/6s deal tons of combat damage while triggering Rigo
Scary cards like The Meathook Massacre, Cathars' Crusade, Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord, Arlinn Kord, and Liliana of the Veil rub elbows with solid cards like fast lands
Add on Karumonix's ability to refill your hand with Rats , and you've got a stellar Rat commander
The hybrid uncommons communicate some of the differences at play: Fireborn Knight rewards power-pumping, Elite Headhunter plays more of a sacrifice-attrition strategy (which ostensibly is WBs shtick), and Resolute Rider is a potent, hard-to-kill threat