I don't mind the Blight mechanic at all, but it's barely made an impact on Standard play, and this deck just isn't quite on the same level as many of the others released so far this year
Vampire Lacerator This card wasn't designed by Ken's team, but rather by the development team
Conversely, swapping the deck format to Explorer will expand the list of format-legal sets to include all Explorer-legal sets, plus Explorer Anthologies
When it is sacrificed, it does the same thing, and it has two generic mana and a tap effect to sacrifice it to gain three life
Atemsis, All-Seeing I once won an M20 Draft match with Atemsis, All-Seeing by revealing a hand with six different mana value cards, and it felt amazing
However, given the volume of NM cards available, sticking to these makes sense, especially when certain LP copies have sold for $37, while NM copies often sell for the same amount