You certainly should be playing things like Be Prepared but as long as your threats or answers a turn later are better than your opponents, you should be dropping haymaker after haymaker while they are scrambling to even USE the extra ink effectively
I hope there will be versions of Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, Aragorn, Boromir, Merry, and Pippin that would fit in a Selesnya color identity deck with Frodo Baggins as the commander
It also wasn't because of whether you decided to use it on any given turn, or whether to cast it
Either (A) they picked a stronger card in the Abzan colors (perhaps possible for the player who opened the pack if there was a bomb rare) or (B) they aren't drafting Abzan (more accurate is to say that they weren't drafting Abzan at the time they made the pick)
This set releases January 26, 2024 with Shiny Pikachu taking the lead, joined by Shiny Ditto, Shiny Snorlax, and Shiny Jigglypuff and over 100 other Shiny Pokmon