You don't want a starting hand full of cards you can't play, so avoid holding on to cards like Hades, Lord of the Underwold and Flotsam, Ursula's Spy
You can take extra upkeeps by enchanting yourself with Paradox Haze, or with Sphinx of the Second Sun, or proliferate your filibuster counters with spells like Experimental Augury and Inexorable Tide
You can aim to be like a combo deck and do as much stuff as you can and win with a big turn out of nowhere, you can be like a ramp deck mainly using elves and elf synergy as a means to ramp quickly, or you can be like an affinity style aggro deck that dumps out onto the board with alarming speed
In fact, I have almost 40 deck images saved on my computer in the format's first week
Monumental Henge Monumental Henge is a slightly better Castle Ardenvale, which isnt much of a compliment considering Castle Ardenvale is on average a much worse Plains
The line inside snaked in so many different directions I was afraid of being poisoned by the lure of a cash grab