One way to prepare your Standard deck is by checking out Frank Karsten's latest Metagame Mentor article that dives into the Standard metagame from the $75K Standard Open and the Standard Cup events held during the recent MagicCon: Chicago
A simple fix of needing the appropriate basic land type in play as they did for the free spells in Masques block would have resolved any colour pie issues and grounded the free spells
In many cases yes, but again that entirely depends on the definition youre using
According to Upper Deck, Disney Lorcana shares similarities with Rush of Ikorr primarily in Lorcanas inkwell mechanic - [which] functions near-identically to Rush of Ikorrs Influence Zone - that allows players to put a card aside to be used as a resource for playing other cards, as well as in Disney Lorcanas lore-gathering mechanics - [which] function identically to Rush of Ikorrs Gems and Raid value - that see players sending their characters on quests to collect the 20 lore they need to win the game
In effect both decks win the games they win via scale, Pavel tends to have a lot of cards that trade for multiple cards, and Sunastian's effects are often so bulky that they just go right over other decks
Full credit: The art on these cards is phenomenal , but they're a bit bombastic as Magic game pieces