The core gimmick of the deck is its item cards, which can be banished to trigger increasingly powerful effects on other cards
Its just a little slow to get going, needing you to pull out as much mana as possible in early turns to be able to start slinging those big spells
In fact, experts believe we may be approaching an event horizon where more Magic cards are printed than there is money in the world to buy them, at which point we'll see economies crumble, governments topple, and trading cards become the only accepted currency across the globe (keep your rare MTG cards close
Colfenor, the Last Yew One hallmark of Abzan combos is that the Commander usually has an activated ability or two that you can keep activating to crank your advantage engine
Outside of this, a card like Finders Keepers with its staggering three-card draw may find a place in some competitive decks
In some cases, I'll cover those in their own articles for their respective games