You only need to gain life once or twice before its a very real threat on the board
Loyal Subordinate CMM foil is bulk-priced This will get you most of the way there for her trigger, and all for no extra mana
While Gandalf does trigger off of far fewer permanents, he does have a one-up on the previous villains by also doubling leave the battlefield triggers
they're basically auto-lose, I can't imagine them winning even 1 out of 10 matches Split the whole community in three groups: 1st: believes the whole game is rigged, manaflood, manascrew, perfect draw 2nd: believes the 1st group is insane because they call wolf and MAYBE believing in conspiracy 3rd: does not care at all, plays the game like it is, says everything is luck I can tell you from more than 1,500 matches in BO1 (best of 1/3) with nearly the same deck and reaching mythic with Tier 2-3 deck, it's possible, you have to overcome a few mind-hurdles: you have to know when to mulligan and when to keep, you have to remind yourself: did my play was ok or risky: do they have a counterspell, boardclear and what not
Six to ten pieces of card draw
In the right deck you can plop Mickey down on the board on turn six and start hammering home