Its a brutal way to punish red board wipes, it block profitably, or it just baits opponents into hurting themselves while trying to deal with your flying army
If you are playing with floodgates and need them gone so you can start attacking, Heavy Storm was a way to clear your own backrow so it stops harming you as well as destroying anything your opponent may have
Despite all this, Lokis price tag is also inflated by the scarcity of Marvel Jumpstart, and even after this is fixed, he could easily remain the most expensive Villain in MTG
First off, you can include Lucario & Melmetal- GX , as it can almost singlehandedly cover the GardEon matchup
Now with larger standard rotations creatures can only be so good, as noncreature combo strategies have a larger card pool to pull from