There are Elf cards that make tokens when you play another Elf, like Lys Alana Huntmaster, and this allows Cloakwood Swarmkeeper to build up counters to make your battlefield get out of hand quickly
Finally, its VStar ability, Starbirth , aims to search for two trainer-type cards from your deck, which is extremely useful and thanks to that, used in many decks in the Metagame since its launch, reinforcing its competitive value and, moreover, a commercial reflex
Here are all the banned Pauper cards: Aarakocra Sneak Arcum's Astrolabe Atog Bonder's Ornament Chatterstorm Cloud of Faeries Cloudpost Cranial Plating Daze Disciple of the Vault Empty the Warrens Fall from Favor Frantic Search Galvanic Relay Gitaxian Probe Grapeshot Gush High Tide Hymn to Tourach Invigorate Monastery Swiftspear Mystic Sanctuary Peregrine Drake Prophetic Prism Sinkhole Sojourner's Companion Stirring Bard Temporal Fissure Treasure Cruise Underdark Explorer Vicious Battlerager MTG Pioneer banlist Pioneer is a format that features cards from Return to Ravnica onwards
Being able to reuse that Demonic Tutor can completely change the game by allowing you to find a key card at just the right time
The mythics are reasonable, and the uncommons are finecertainly no more disappointing than Dark Ascension and Gatecrash
