The companion ability has no effect if the card isn't revealed as your companion at the start of the game, and it creates no restrictions on putting a card with a companion ability into your starting deck
Unfortunately its difficult to build around and not particularly interesting or powerful once you tick all of these boxes
Unlimited Tropical Island - PO Underground Sea - PL International Edition Badlands - NM Plateau - NM Scrubland - NM Tundra - NM Underground Sea - NM Volcanic Island - NM Revised Edition Badlands - GD Bent, PL Bayou - NM, EX, LP, PL, PL, PL Plateau - NM, NM, NM, EX, PL, PL Savannah - EX Scrubland - NM, EX, GD BINDER DING Taiga - NM Tropical Island - NM, PL Tundra - NM, NM, NM, GD, LP, LP, LP Underground Sea - NM, NM, NM Volcanic Island - NM, NM, GD Foreign Black Bordered German Bayou - PL BENT (German) Savannah - PO INKED (German) Plateau - LP (German), Taiga - PO INKED, PO INKED (German) Tundra - PL (German) Foreign White Bordered Italian Badlands - GD (Italian) Scrubland - LP (Italian) Tundra - LP (Italian) Volcanic Island - PO (Italian) High-End Reserved List The High-End Reserved List is back with a lot of fan-favorites
These strategies can be mixed together or run separately
Famed Deadite destroyer, Ash Williams, takes center stage but finds himself in the same release as full-art cards that depict the usual Magic monsters in the style of the campy Creepshow films