Yes, first strike is conditionally relevantyou never mind having it, but there are plenty of board states where youre swinging at someone with no blockers or who has creatures smaller than yours or whatever
The Floodborn cards Protective Embrace effect grants other characters the Ward keyword, making it valuable as a way of defending against challenges from your rival players
Whats more, the cost to play the Sheriff of Nottingham and The Bayou, then move Beast to The Bayou, amounts to just six ink in total
If you're playing a deck like Food and Fellowship, start generating Food tokens early to prepare for lifegain synergies
You can only cast your companion once and after you cast it, there's no way to put it back in the "companion zone" - which to me sounds way better than the "friend zone." If nothing else we now have an excuse to queue up Marc Cohn's 1991 wedding classic, "True Companion" at the start of every game
Buying a box rather than individual packs is the most common way to open a large quantity of cards at a better per-pack price