WotC has clearly worked hard to tune a three-mana planeswalker we can describe as playable rather than forgettable or format warping. Kaitos phasing trigger basically guarantees two activations, even in decks that hate to block, and the combination of card draw and ninjutsu-enabling will always come in handy
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After the first turn, Search for Tomorrow is generally worse than other options, which makes drawing multiple bad and makes drawing it in hands that need to use Arcums Astrolabe for green bad, so Ive gone down to one, since it is the best first-turn play if you have it, and Im also playing one Sakura-Tribe Elder, one Cultivate, and one Kodamas Reach

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