Ashaya plays well with Blanchwood Armor and also makes it easy for you to ramp quickly since every creature you control can also tap for green mana
Its turned out to be one of the most popular multicolour EDH cards from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, slotting into all the Boros equipment and artifact decks, providing a useful tutor effect and cheap equipping as well as enabling some incredibly favourable combat for your creatures a little later on
If a creature loses double strike after assigning damage in the first strike combat damage step (due to Boldwyr Aggressor leaving the battlefield, for example), that creature won't assign damage in the normal combat damage step
I hope this opens the doors for UB sets to be more accessible to those who enjoy them, and for staples to be more affordable
Beyond mono-white, it enables Pioneer and Historic strategies where cards like Collected Company can suddenly flood the board with oversized angels
She sees all living things as prototype machines