The deck starts by casting a number of efficiently costed creatures with strong secondary abilities including Malcolm (loot/draw effects), Breeches (create treasure/unblockable/draw effect), Staunch Crewmate (draw effects), Captain Storm (+1/+1 counters), and many more
Beyond that, you can dissuade blocks, burn your own creatures for extra card draw, or even ping opposing blockers and swing in with massive creatures to punish their blocks
In addition, you'll find determined Amber characters like the miners from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
When gold cards were first introduced, not only were many of them not particularly strong, but they had a unique restriction all their own, because these cards weren't just special
Reanimator strategies will get a bump and it'll make the other Blue decks, especially Izzet Blitz as it's the less consistent creature-combo deck, a bit stronger