An expensive board wipe is overkill if you just have one creature to deal with, and a single target kill spell is pointless if you're being harried by lots of little creatures
The deck has decent staple reprints, notably Academy Ruins, Panharmonicon, Conjurer's Closet, Arcane Denial, and Lightning Greaves
it cares about results
In conclusion, I wanted to sayin the unlikely event that someone at Wizards actually read this and got to this pointthat I think Samurai are an interesting creature type and they are a nice change to the usual creature classes that run the gambit
The normal version of the card can be bought for quite a bit less than the extended art version, but if youre putting this card in a commander deck or if youre playing Bard Class, it may be worth picking up the bling version
He can also tap to attach an Aura or Equipment to one of your creatures