Starting life as a 3/3 means Baron Helmut Zemo can get pretty intimidating very quickly even without activating Boast, but the Conniving can be strategically done to load your graveyard and activate Boast much quicker
Decks must have only one or two ink types, so when adding cards and building their own decks, players must keep this in mind
Using it limits us to one spell per turn, but thats not too steep a price to pay for being able to continually recast some permanents
Aerith, Last Ancient feels like a particular curveball here, since lifegain is a pretty small part of the deck overall
It wouldn't be particularly hard to brew up an Elfball list that would spam out a bunch of creatures and would have my tablemates dreading the now-inevitable Craterhoof alpha strike
But Svogthos has been somewhat overlooked since, criminally so when you consider how exceptionally it scales to threaten even Commander life totals