Despite the existence of graveyard hate cards like Rest In Peace, reanimate decks, better encapsulated as "graveyard matters" decks in the modern age, continue to appear in the meta across every format
But even if you're not specifically a Final Fantasy game fan, there are tons of Birds throughout Magic 's history that you can now pull together in a powerful Bant Bird typal deck
You may not be thinking about defenses at the 4-mana stage of a game, but the value of this elf archer is the pinging damage it can do
Scrying 2 then drawing lets you dig deep while you set up the top of your library, which is huge for combo and control decks
Light-Paws doesn't negate this, but she does double the return on investment you get for casting an aura spell
Most of the time, this means during your main phase when the stack is empty