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Anya seems like she is meant to close out the game quickly after your initial rush gets your opponents to low life totals, but theres some difficult tension there: as you eliminate players, she gets weaker again
Deathrite Shaman is a little slower and more vulnerable than Courser, he also loses his other utility and costs you some mana should you be using him for life
In Modern, Fetchlands make Descending trivial
If you don't care about the echo you play Last Gasp or Grasp of Darkness or an actually good card
(Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.) Whenever Anax or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 red Satyr creature token with "This token can't block." If the creature had power 4 or greater, create two of those tokens instead