"tips & tricks cards" were discontinued
Switching from prison pieces to combo pieces means you deny opponents the chance to come back, but the prison decks are more flexible in putting together a win and can ride a single turn-one spell to victory
Another nice thing to do against control decks is CAREFULLY using your removal (Magma Spray, Abrade and Lightning Strike) on your own creatures to prevent the opponent recovering HP with Moment of Craving
You may also think that similar to Shahrazad, the card would be banned due to how impractical and difficult it would be to enforce this in a tournament setting, but you'd be wrong
Even if you arent willing to go to that extreme, just playing good, expensive green cards will already make you some birds
The Walking Dead Secret Lair cards havent been banned in any formats, so you can play them in any format where theyre otherwise legal