That next sentence, however, that draws you half X cards (rounded down) upon entering, is incredibly powerful
Draw #2 I have designed some broken mechanics in my day
Based on this table, the average Atraxa deck falls between a tournament deck having 20 and 21 lands, which means over 30% of the time you wont have four lands by Turn 4
While Encore (2) offers the advantage of retrieving a Bard attack action card from the graveyard, there may be better options such as Sonata (2) which not only returns a card to hand but also provides additional benefits like drawing a card
At the time, people collected Pokmon cards because they were either neat, they played the game a lot, or just because it was popular, and I thought that was it
If you want to swarm, and do it with some resilience, Id say that Gisa and Geralf represent probably your absolutely best bet to start with