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The Shift ability on their card lets them be played for an alternate cost, on top of one of your other characters

Shes not only a bodyguard, she can also challenge readied characters

Since it focuses on exile, Farewell works well against graveyard-based decks and works around indestructible effects like Boros Charm and Heroic Intervention as well

Windborn Muse is a budget card that makes it more difficult for an opponent to attack you and take the monarch from you, while cards like Kardur, Doomscourge push opponents to attack each other rather than you

Follow up forced card draw with wheels to nullify most of the advantages it offered opponents.Wheel of Fortune, Windfall, and Reforge the Soul