There are a bunch of high-impact blue creatures available in Historic and Timeless, including Atraxa, Grand Unifier and Agent of Treachery
Similar to when a new physical TCG comes out, Ill typically try out digital ones too if theres enough buzz around them, like Hearthstone , or if theyre something I have a personal interest in, like Marvel Snap
This means that you gain more life per extort in games of EDH than you would in a 1v1 game
The minor curvature can distort and impact the consistency of evaluating defects on the card during image capture (this is why scanner covers flatten the objects they are scanning to reduce fringe noise) and especially when comparing to every other card that gets scanned
It can also help us stabilize by giving us a big chunk of lifelink, and if it does end up in the yard through dying or being discarded we can perform a big tempo play by Encoring it out to reanimate multiple things and swing life totals by a big percentage