Cavendish is best paired with the Hody Jones card from Wings of the Captain [OP-06] because of the combined pressure the two cards put on the opponent
Theyre not only playable right out of the box, they can hang unmodified in most environments
Since they dont use a colored mana symbol, they can go into any Commander deck to provide an off-color basic land type, which could be interesting for domain or converge strategies outside 5-color shells
It goes without saying that Magic players had very high expectations for this set because of the large pool of potential reprints on offer
Toxic DelugeToxic Deluge is one of the best black mass removal spells ever made and fits perfectly with this deck - especially if we pay four or more life, we can draw a card from our commander's effect
Finally, Passionate Archaeologist here is a very real win condition on its own, taking huge chunks of ~5 or more from our opponents as we continually cast spells off of Suspend, or impulse draw