You have a sort-of Cultivate if you cast Claim Territory, adding redundancy to early game ramp, or you can have a dragon that is fairly sized as a 4/5 flier that gains life to offset some hits youve received
This evolved into a love of Japanese culture, language, history, and pretty much anything to do with it
Its not the best pull but it could be a lot worse
Based on the latest market prices tracked on TCG Stacked, Anax, Hardened in the Forge is worth about $0.21 USD for a regular copy and $0.24 USD for a foil copy
As I mentioned last time, it is ultimately just a pile of 60 cards, and it is their intense synergy that makes people call it the 'strongest' deck
Loxi: Being a three drop is really what sells me on this, as it's got a pretty low opportunity cost for quite a bit of punch if you have a lot of artifacts (read: any artifact deck)