There's a lot of generally good cards to upgrade into though: It's in your opponents' best interests to kill Arcades, the Strategist whenever possible
The constant pressure of the best Auras MTG allows you to commit to aggressive plays without the fear of losing your resource investment to a simple removal spell
Due to planeswalkers being so great almost all of these will have some Duress targets but the problem is that you don't have good odds on getting a hit, even on turn one, making Duress a bit dodgy
The association to learning gives the naming convention tutors, and this refers to spells which can take your choice of card from a deck on cue
You just dont want to play Magic with fewer cards in hand, or else youre needlessly kneecapping yourself
If we're going to play with Skrelv, we're going to poison people to death, and for some reason, people don't like that