The red (ruby) color is aggressive, focused on a straightforward playstyle, while amber specializes in guarding and healing, and so on
Gaining life and growing all your durdles is a pretty disgusting effect to tack onto a not-completely-horrendous evasive body, and since it triggers on ALL life gain, its inherent synergies are pretty absurd
The deck does sacrifice a bit of punching power to pursue this strategy, though
The artwork for Tiana, Restaurant Owner is fantastic, depicting her in the center of her restaurant, with waiters dancing around her, her friends and family behind her, and the trumpet playing alligator enjoying the nightlife
They are creatures who debuted in Mercadian Masques that come with activated abilities that involve you paying a mana cost and discarding at least one card
In addition to being such a powerful game piece, its obviously far more castable than most game-winning threats we could play and the ability to clean up the left over Spirits from Forbidden Orchard is actually very helpful
