What affects the value of Alela, Artful Provocateur
Combat tricks are at their best in formats defined by racing and weak removal (like Ixalan or Avacyn Restored) and at their worst in formats defined by card advantage and powerful removal (like War of the Spark seems to be)
For the most part, the card selections are an amalgamation of the two lists, with a leaning based on keeping the deck aggressive but still not being too wild with our choices
As a 5/5 with Flying and two Enter the Battlefield (ETB) abilities that are not mutually exclusive, she's an easy inclusion for
(4/4/2025) If the exiled card has in its mana cost, the destroyed permanent's controller must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Past all of the hype, availability issues, reselling, and secondary market stuff, the gameplay itself is fundamentally great