Five mana for a not-as-flexible Generous GiftGenerous Gift is a terrible rate, especially with three pips, and the tacked-on recursion for artifacts and enchantments is unlikely to hit anything impactful if you're not fully dedicated to artifacts and enchantments, at which point you still have to recast whatever it is that you get back
If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.) +1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gets -3/-0
Bretagard Stronghold Suggested Cut : Forest Bretagard Stronghold enters the battlefield tapped, but it has a very relevant extra ability that this deck can make use of
Finally, putting the gate into play and checking for 10 gates to win the game is all part of the same ability and all resolves at once
most archetypes dont want to fire off spells early of aggressively, but they also dont want to hold up removal and not use it
The only problem with trying to utilise Shift as an ability is that it relies on you taking up space in your deck for cheaper versions of the characters you want to shift out