Furthermore, this design has a nod in its name toward the "Final Fantasy VIII" boss monstrosity's hallmark attack, the 10,000 Needles, which directly kills enemies in the computer game
So by relying on your lands only to cast your commander (the strategy on which most decks are based) you will find that every other card type becomes much more impactful
If you gain some life, you get energy, and you can use that energy to pay into the X part f the cost instead of mana
If Nexus of Fate is exiled with a kick counter, whenever Chun-Li attacks, she can cast the card, netting an extra turn each time for potentially infinite turns
The deck also contains two beautiful foil cards from Ursula's Return
I think that it all comes down to having really put in the time to come up with more than one definition of speed in Magic , so that every color combination can be strategically diverse without feeling out of place