Knights are a popular tribe and +1/+1 counter strategies have always been around in seemingly every other set
This is especially true in metas, where you deal with many blue decks and makes the card a sideboard favorite in many formats
It's a great tool for protecting creatures from certain types of removal, especially when you can toss one around at instant speed
While it remains to be seen if these costs and rewards are balanced properly, with a free try for each player being made available and a clean-looking UI supporting it, it appears MTG Arena player drafts could be just what the platform needs to reach an even larger demographic
In control the best application for Daze is to add security to making a mid game permanent such as a planeswalker, earlier use, unless hard cast, is too damaging to your tempo
Coming down for free, Mana Crypt can enable all manner of explosive starts