Chapter III in particular makes attacking feed you cards, so sometimes Shiva plays out like two turns of Moat. You can also try to combine this with other stun effects to draw extra cards, though there arent many of those (mostly just Ice Flan and Omega, Heartless Evolution)
In comparison to other control decks like Tivit or Niv-Mizzet Parun it lacks clear one card wincons out of the CZ like Time Sieve or Curiosity.2024-01-24 Thrasios Vial MidrangeCOMPETITIVEA sans-white version of typical sans-red Thassa's Oracle decks
Before long, you pull off loops with cards like Ancestral Statue or Cloud of Faeries and trigger infinite casts
If your initial draw gives you The Queen, Commanding Prescene, its worth throwing everything else out to get The Queen, Regal Monarch
But when you need a board wipe, you can use the Exude Toxin omen, dropping a powerful -X/-X effect that wipes out smaller non-dragon creatures