Costing four generic and two white, it synergises incredibly well with lifegain, something white does best
To play up that these are a bunch of old mechanics, we chose to put these two cards, and only these two cards, in old, original card frames
Maha, Its Feathers Night Loxi: Maha opens up a crazy amount of options for how you can control the board, and thus lends to a really neat mono-black control shell where you can use things like Kaervek, the Spiteful to make sure nobody can stick a creature without having a way to buff it before it hits the board
In the current design space we have cards like
And if you add a Doubling Season to your deck
A big red staple and playable in a few other archetypes too, all of which have ways to ramp up their own mana quickly