His Mardu colour identity is important too, allowing the deck to break outside of the usual Rakdos colours for vampires and include all the white vampires that have been printed in recent times, as well as providing access to enchantment removal which historically black and red have struggled with
Let's build around the first half of the first ability and draw a ton of cards, for life loss like Ancient Craving that now net 3 life instead of losing you three
It is always weird when the flavour text identifies the 'development of resistance' by the forest, but it's counted as an enchantment
You just need to expand your idea of aggro, move away from the Goblin Guides of the world, and build resilient decks capable of distributing tons of damage
As Planeswalker Partys backup commander, Leori, Sparktouched Hunter wants you to focus on a single named planeswalker
In order to unlock the special (and often quite powerful) effects found on the flip side of each Battle you'll need to reduce those counters to zero by either attacking said Battle or by using certain types of spells to damage it or remove its counters