First, they looked back at all the mechanics from the Ixalan block ( Ixalan and Rivals of Ixalan ): Ascend/City's Blessing Explore Enrage Raid Transforming double-faced cards (with lands on the back face) Treasure tokens Typal themes (Dinosaur, Merfolk, Pirate, and Vampire) We wanted to bring back a little bit to make it feel like Ixalan but not too much, as we weren't repeating the mechanical identity
The combo is cheap, all the individual pieces have strong merits and synergies on their own and the whole combo takes up very little decks space
sometimes in tension, sometimes in harmony
Yusaku also decided to warn Zaizen about Lightning's plans to conquer humanity, even risking his real world identity in the process, showing that he does trust Zaizen, who in turn heeded Yusaku's warnings
It has none of the early utility of Green Sun's Zenith and by early I mean any turn before the turn you win or lose on in this instance