mtg card artwork Magic: The Gathering® Tiamat Art Card

I have a feeling they originally designed Aminatou to be all about topdeck manipulation but then realized there weren't enough cards in Magic to make an entire deck around it and didn't have enough space in the product to properly support this new archetype with new cards (think Feline Ferocity 's problem last year) so they just filled in the gaps by adding the ETB theme

This is a bit of a go wide deck like the last Amber starter, but its also focused on a second mechanic: item sacrifice

(Cost: 2

As I mentioned already, some decks are capable of filling both roles playing an early control game until they see an opening, then closing the game quickly and efficiently