The combination of these two factors makes it seem significantly less likely that it's just about the price of cards
You can now play with her and Zuran Orb in your decks for less than $3, giving you another phenomenal win condition that also happens to grow Slogurk
When you attack with a large enough army which includes Odric, you make all decisions about blocking
On the card, an ominous and impressive-looking spellcaster deflects an incoming fireball with a magical lash of water, colliding in a burst of color
The Grixis color combination isn't great at ramping mana, but vampires tend to be very efficient in their cost and rely on each other for benefit, besides, you are limited to casting one collected card on each player's turn, so it's not broken right
The colorless land can slot into any deck interested in making construct tokens and playing 0-1 mana artifact spells, and as it turns out there are numerous decks interested in doing so: Amulet Titan can bounce Urzas Saga multiple times and their namesake card Amulet of Vigor conveniently costs one mana