Beyond the Four-Colour decks, the card also sees play in Esper Reanimator, where you look to blink creatures like Grief, Solitude, Mulldrifter and Archon of Cruelty
Is this enough to get the blue-based affinity decks over the top
Blue: Ghostly Flicker, March of Swirling Mist, Slip out the Back, etc
This is especially potent if there is a pump spell that grants trample, as we've seen with the Temur Battle Rage / Become Immense combo
Kains almost-comical ability to be forced into betraying you is delightfully woven into Magic with his card, Kain, Traitorous Dragoonwhenever Kain does damage to another player, they can choose to take control of him and he does mirrored damage to his original owner, meaning that Kain can bounce back and forth between ownership over the course of the game
Cyclonus additional Beginning Phase is an amazing ability, even better than the one from Sphinx of the Second Sun because not only is Cyclonus cheaper to cast, you can still cast Sorceries or other Creatures in the postcombat Main Phase