Gurgi is Common, so easy to pull or trade for, but he isnt what this deck needs
Unlike the lightning-fast Mono-Red Aggro mirrors, the first game between the matching decks stalled while Rood's Portolan took the second game with a quick rush of Otters and aggro, and as the players moved to their fairly different-looking sideboards it was time to see who had the best post-board plans, where the Otters were once again key
Kytheon, Hero of Akros / Gideon, Battle-Forged Creatures that are 2/1 for have been a staple of Constructed decks since Savannah Lions
Well, whites is awesome, as recursion is sometimes the hardest tech to justify if youre not filling your own yard
You do need to have some amount of board presence established for this to end the game, but it doesnt take too many creatures for this to overwhelm a table beneath a flurry of hooves, paws, and other things to make a lake of your table