The new rules need enough flavor and novelty value to turn heads, but also to be balanced, and offer interesting play patterns that can hold up over the next 2-3 years of Standard
Farm // Market Surprise your opponents by casting the Farm side of Farm // Market to destroy whatever creature theyre attacking or blocking with
If ContentlyForlorn ever takes a look at this, maybe they can share insight if they know what's different about (at least) those 2 NPC battles
Since most of my favorite creatures have a mana value of 3 or less, Ascend from Avernus can easily outperform most other options available for white in my decks
Some limit the pool of cards in the format to provide a different kind of gameplay, like Artisan or Pauper EDH
As long as there are three or more cards exiled with Veteran Survivor, it gets +3/+3 and has hexproof