However, they lacked Energy acceleration to get off the ground quickly
Dropped it for the same reason as Karmic Guide
If you control Baird, your opponents can choose not to pay to attack with a creature that attacks "if able." If there's no other player, planeswalker, or battle to attack, that creature simply doesn't attack
Moving to an Artifact Pod in Repurposing Bay, making it blue, and making it unaffected by summoning sickness (sorry, Oswald!) makes this quite the home run
Moreover, as these cut cards are clearly not randomly selected given how they appear as a group, it makes perfect sense for them to have been omitted from Twilight Masquerade for a specific purpose
This is a pretty incredibly upside, even if it only happens when three-quarters of the table is dealing with a figurative archenemy that isnt you