I've lost a lot of games to Aurelia, the Warleader, but she might be too expensive if you're looking for those really fast wins.
My buddy plays her control + effects that abuse her trigger. Extra combat spells, Strionic Resonator, double strike, a few equipments like Sunforger. Its surprising how quickly he can go from "buuuh im not doing anything" to one shotting people. And if another flying critter gets in your way you just remove it with your R/W nuking suite.
I'll give Aurelia another vote. In one EDH game, the guy with her accelerated into Aurelia on what must have been turn 4 or 5, soulbonded her to Silverblade Paladin, and equipped Umezawa's Jitte. I, uh, lost that turn.
It seems worth a shot, but you might want to slot your combo into a wider UR energy deck rather than an all-in combo. As a 4 card combo that requires two copies of one of its pieces, it's very difficult to assemble, and it can be disrupted by most artifact or creature removal. You also don't go off fast enough to not worry about protecting yourself, so it would be for the best of the combo were one of a few win conditions instead of THE win condition.
The main obstacle to vehicles becoming evergreen is that equipment is evergreen. While they play differently, evergreen vehicles would essentially fight for the same space as equipment. The number of equipment in Kaladesh attests to that. Unless Wizard's gripes about equipment become severe enough to shelve it like protection and regenerate, it's unlikely that vehicles would be allowed to compete with equipment in every set.
Jhoira's activated ability exists independently of her card. The exiled card will keep suspend until it changes zones, and it does not need Jhoira in play for suspend to trigger and resolve normally.
If you flash in Ophidian Eye in response to removal, you do have the ability to combo off then and there. After Eye resolves, before DB does, you will receive priority and be able to activate Niv-Mizzet with DB still on the stack.
If your opponent kills Niv-Mizzet with a card draw activated ability/trigger on the stack, then, yes, the combo will be stopped unless you draw a card in response.
Those planeswalker deck-exclsive cards are going to have to be very good for these to go anywhere, I'm afraid. No one was lying in this thread when they said that these Planeswalkers are awful and I don't think that even newer players are going to be fooled by these for very long. Some new players will know that these cards feel bad. I mean, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to look at this Chandra and look at the Chandra in the actual set and spot the difference. If the rest of the deck's aren't very good as well, new players will be told by word of mouth not to buy these decks.
I don't really understand why these planeswalkers had to be this bad, honestly. They could have just been okay or somewhat decent, not... garbadge? I feel that this is going to end up working against them as the quality of the planeswalkers in these decks actually decreases some new player's excitement for planeswalker cards overall and players who may have bought one planeswalker deck the first time around, I suspect, won't be doing the same in the future unless something changes.
I think Wizards specifically tried to make precon-specific cards that have zero competitive appeal to avoid the secondary market price spikes that happened to certain commander products. You wouldn't know it from the crowd here, but new players aren't as hard to impress as you might think. If people here crinkle their noses at these cards, then Wizards has achieved one of their stated goals for this product.
Creatures die to lethal damage when state-based actions are checked, which occur whenever a player gains priority. If you use Lightning Bolt on a 2/3 Tarmogoyf without any instants in the gy, the damage will be dealt as part of the spell's resolution, before bolt is put into the gy. Goyf wouldn't die until the next time a player receives priority, so its ability will register the extra point of toughness in time for state-based actions to be checked, allowing it to survive.
slightly off subject but stores never allow store credit to be used on entries; at least i've never run into them.
Well, mine does, at least.
@OP: My store has the opposite problem. They always wait until everyone shows up before even assembling pods, and events always start late due to that. The Conspiracy 2 drafts last Friday were scheduled to begin at 7:30pm, but didn't start until 8:00. The problem here is that the employees usually try to avoid closing up the store too long after closing, so some events risk getting cut short. Fortunately, this hasn't ruined any of my evenings yet.
No. Players and planeswalkers are two separate entities, so dealing damage to a planeswalker will no more trigger Necromaster Dragon's ability than combat damage to a creature.
One thing about monarchy that bothers me most: we had a plenty of discussion about "how cardname helps you to keep the monarchy", but who actually cares about stealing the monarchy with attack if you can just drop another of many "makes you a monarch" creatures?
Other than the bomb rares/mythics, most of the common/uncommon monarch cards range from slightly below curve to very below curve, and many of them get much worse if you already are the monarch or stop being the monarch. A check of the current "you become the monarch" cards reveals that every single one costs 4 or more mana to use. Unless you want to make your deck extremely top-heavy, you'll probably only include a handful of monarch effects, which means you'll rely on attacking most of the time. Also, there's the whole thing about painting a target on your head.
Mairsil's reappearance in card form absolutely can be a coincidence because Commander products are a dumping ground for neglected legendary figures, the vast majority of whom are irrelevant to contemporary sets.
While its value probably won't spike, I disagree with your assessment of Bygone Bishop. It has applications outside of clue-based decks; for example, it makes every creature that Collected Company decks hardcast replace themselves. If any sort of white weenie crops up (human or spirit tribal?), Bishop would give the deck crucial staying power in the mid and late games.
I'll give Aurelia another vote. In one EDH game, the guy with her accelerated into Aurelia on what must have been turn 4 or 5, soulbonded her to Silverblade Paladin, and equipped Umezawa's Jitte. I, uh, lost that turn.
If your opponent kills Niv-Mizzet with a card draw activated ability/trigger on the stack, then, yes, the combo will be stopped unless you draw a card in response.
Serious answer: Lightning Bolt
I think Wizards specifically tried to make precon-specific cards that have zero competitive appeal to avoid the secondary market price spikes that happened to certain commander products. You wouldn't know it from the crowd here, but new players aren't as hard to impress as you might think. If people here crinkle their noses at these cards, then Wizards has achieved one of their stated goals for this product.
Well, mine does, at least.
@OP: My store has the opposite problem. They always wait until everyone shows up before even assembling pods, and events always start late due to that. The Conspiracy 2 drafts last Friday were scheduled to begin at 7:30pm, but didn't start until 8:00. The problem here is that the employees usually try to avoid closing up the store too long after closing, so some events risk getting cut short. Fortunately, this hasn't ruined any of my evenings yet.
Theros also had devotion (i.e. Chroma), so that could count as well.
LandName
Land (Rare)
When LandName enters the battlefield, gain 1 life.
It accesses more colors than the painlands while losing the ability to not lose life while paying for its first activation.
Other than the bomb rares/mythics, most of the common/uncommon monarch cards range from slightly below curve to very below curve, and many of them get much worse if you already are the monarch or stop being the monarch. A check of the current "you become the monarch" cards reveals that every single one costs 4 or more mana to use. Unless you want to make your deck extremely top-heavy, you'll probably only include a handful of monarch effects, which means you'll rely on attacking most of the time. Also, there's the whole thing about painting a target on your head.