Seriously, what is DWD thinking putting this dude in this format. Oh yeah, and his friends
Bloodletter and
Lethrai Falchion are here too. Since Varret is a degenerate card and the new strangers are insane (Kodosh's stranger wins the game equipped with our weapons against aggro and most midrange decks), we might as well throw in a strangers theme too.
Maybe we're supposed to have a market, but I'm having too much fun turning my brain off and goldfish killing opponents with Bart/Varret in "fun, interactive" games. The only problem matchup might be armory, but even then, Kodosh's stranger makes our dudes way bigger than their weapons and Makkar's stranger grinds them out.
Seriously though, it's been nice to snipe annoying relic weapons/sites/board wipes out of control along with big dumb random threats from midrange, but it's by far the weakest card in the deck and can definitely be played around with as a flex slot. It's also less than ideal than I thought because the market cards are instant speed and therefore dodge its disruption
Good options include Finest hour (always good and can sneak in that Varret mastery/extra damage with Bart), Fearless Crescendo (for a market and making Varret/Kodosh's stranger fly), sabotage (basically hits the same things you really care about with SH and hits the market cards), or even just another random stranger/weapon card for more gas.