The neat thing about Leyline of the Guildpact is that you can start the game with it on the battlefield if it is in your opening hand, making it so you just get a five mana spell right at the start of the game for free
With two Lore pips, Beast can easily rack up a ton of Lore by questing, playing a damaging card such as Fire the Canons, then questing again
Yes: Standard (and Alchemy)
We were beginning to center on the idea of Dominaria as a world of history, and I kept coming back to the idea that, in a world where the past so defined the present, stories had to be important
Treasure Cruise is my go-to draw spell
It can also easily avoid any removal with its ability to exile itself, making it a potent threat and core part of our engine