Dictate of Heliod What Dictate of Heliod lacks in efficiency it compensates for with the surprise factor
If red decks are on the rise in some way or aggro decks begin to dominate the format, Oketras Last Mercy is a solid card to equip sideboards with
This should give you a hint as to the power this card holds
Primal Wellspring: I would cast a card draw spell and repeat it
This card is reminiscent of cards that punish noncreature spells like Scab-Clan Berserker or Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
It plays into a longstanding and unfortunate trope of Western European and related attitudes called orientalism.* The recipe is fairly simple: take an Asian (anywhere from Turkey to Vietnam will do) culture thats not yours, appropriate** some stuff that seems outlandish, make some more stuff up, and sell it all back to your own culture as exotic. The persistent redefinition of a culture seen as the other is how a harem, originally the decidedly unsexy womens quarters in a household, became in the broader Western imagination a private bordello
