The Mage offers some security against awkward lands and some disruption potential on an easy to cast body that ensures you won't ever have a dead spell
With Doubling Season the + loyalty abilities do not add additional counters since the + ability is seen as a cost to do the ability, not the effect itself
As you can imagine, blocking creatures with first strike is very difficult unless you have a creature that either has first strike itself or has enough power to tank the damage
This has resulted in the delay of the release of Ixalan to MTGPQ as well as a delay in the long-promised feature to allow players to craft packs with the abundant amounts of otherwise useless currency they get in-game
Creepiness aside, he seems like a cool recursive attacker who will continue to harass your opponents using the Armour of Shrieking Souls as long as you can make sure that their creatures keep leaving the battlefield
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh / Chandra, Roaring Flame Ive always liked the flipwalkers as commanders, since they let you use some of Magics main characters who usually cant go in the command zone