iron apprentice mtg card text Iron Apprentice MTG - Kamigawa:

30 cards isnt that many, and a few cards from The Big Score are reprints, so that leaves room to highlight some cards from Thunder Junction Commander as well

This means that Oblivion Rings shut down your modular creatures and you wont be able to Cloudshift those modular creatures off the battlefield to move their counters while returning them at full strength

While flicker decks have historically been better for adding blue, its now increasingly possible to get away without doing so

It's also a great option in Spirit decks, copy decks, midrange brews with triggers to copy on both sides, and loads more

I actually think it was smart to broaden its appeal outside of Assassin typal decks, because otherwise these cards would not see much play at all