Channel lets you pay life to generate a huge burst of mana, and then Fireball turns that mana into lethal damage in one shot
You could build an aggressive deck that uses Bre as a card advantage engine to maintain pressure or go taller and focus on giving your biggest creatures lifelink and flying
If you're lucky enough, it can stick around for its final chapter, hopefully winning you the game if you have an Ugin and a few other permanents lying around
If you like having the best creatures at the table at all times, then youll love playing midrange decks
While changes to older, non-rotating formats are fairly common, the banning of cards in Standard is incredibly rare, and Wizards does its best to avoid them
Since Menace is all about combat, it makes sense that it would be at its best there.