It also gains life at the three artifact threshold, giving it some extra utility
Red Mage's Rapier Rarity: Common TYPE: Artifact SUBTYPE: Equipment CMC: 2 Mana cost: USD: $0.14 EUR: 0.08 TIX: 0.03 EDHREC RANK: 8824 Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature has "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn" and is a Wizard in addition to its other types
Once you remove Collected Company, your deck has a lot more lands than it will need - and you could easily drop down to 22 (or possibly even 20)
It is very easy to go infinite with Heliod, Sun-Crowned's effect, most notably with Walking Ballista, allowing you to remove counters to gain them back right away by giving it lifelink
I'm generally not including "Protection from [color]", "Hexproof from [color]", and landwalk cards, as they are easy enough to search for