Abrade, Mizzium Mortars, and Lightning Bolt are all light removal of one kind or another, but there are edge cases when you want an instant ready to save Norin from a removal ability on a creature
Finally, we gave the player a secondary way to advance the Story: they could use mana to progress it
Whats more, it can give you much needed chump-blockers, and on the whole Ayulas Influence looks a lot stronger to me than Seismic Assault itself
If you just needed a few ideas to get into the new set, or might be looking for the next deck to bring into a tournament, I hope this article helped you get started
The problem was we weren't allowed to say "destroy target player." Why
Highly recommended to collect a master set