Dealing combat damage with Elsha gives you that many 1/1 Monk tokens with prowess, so spells that let you slip past blockers and gives Elesha a power boost helps to make them an all-in strategy
Seventeen lands is about the lowest you'll ever go in a "normal" deck, with 16 being the absolute floor
To those people I would sadly have to say, "Hell no!" There is no magic formula, at least certainly not one I'm aware of
You can sacrifice any creature you control to pay Dissection Tools's equip cost, including the creature Dissection Tools is currently equipping
If you follow that up with Pack Tactics, you've just made a perfect storm for your opponent by putting them at a willpower disadvantage and allowing you to surge ahead in lore
The result is a fabulously multifaceted set of 269 cards, rich with different strategies and emergent interplays