Having a very powerful and easily reachable ultimate because of the +2 works more in his favour more than I have thus far found the -1 ability to do, although this could easily be down to me not having found the right kind of tempo deck for him to shine in
The heart of the deck is, of course, dragons: while all the best ones comes with the "Dragon Tax," recent reprints in Foundations have helped us afford some big hitters, with the single best one for the deck being Scourge of Valkas which is actually stronger here than any other Dragon deck since Feywild Visitor pumps out so many dragon tokens and makes Scourge's burn trigger into a game-ender
(1) You can discard this card and 1 other LIGHT or Dragon monster
The color is low on well-costed threats, well-costed removal, and extremely low on traditional card advantage
Exile your commander and potentially other nonland permanents you don't control
Promos, Alternate Art, and More Of course, it wouldnt be a modern-day Magic sets with some amount of booster fun and alt-arts, special foil treatments and more