Soul Warden pads your life total with every creature that enters, Rhox Faithmender doubles that lifegain, Greed lets you pay life for steady cards or bodies, and Unburial Rites adds redundancy
4 energies, pitiful damage with risk of damaging yourself and losing all your energies
Some of the new cards and reprints are great
Pregame conversations arent the magic salve to solve every problem someone might have, but theyre an excellent jump start to getting the kind of experience you really want out of a game
Ikoria primarily solves the issue of creatures with three or more card types, using the planes native, multi-type mutant creatures like Skittering Kitten and bonder pairs like Yera and Oski, Weaver and Guide to justify the strange spider human hero type linethough some human spiders, like Kroble, Envoy of the Bog are presented as something resembling a centaur with a spider bottom