Once this deck started drawing extra cards, its ability to deploy spells was so much better than anything else in the format that there was no keeping up with it
Egyptian mythology and history provided a lot of broad influences (mummies, pyramids, deserts, hieroglyphics, etc.) that let us make categories of cards, but proved much more difficult when we were trying to make individual top-down cards
To speed things up, two most useful tools for ramp in this deck are Gauntlet of Power, which will double all your basic land's mana production while also buffing your blue creatures, and Nyx Lotus, which gives you mana equal to your devotion to a chosen color
Saffgor: This card lacking protection itself means it probably doesn't get there outside of reanimator, and the best reanimation available in these colors in formats where it might matter only targets Mana Value 3 or less
For what it's worth, it is literally our hobby to collect production errors
Your Harnessed Lightning is always going to take up as much (or as little) of your energy reserve as it needs to answer that must-kill threat