Read the latest AMA from Jeff and he kinda captures it fairly well: V1 is the structure V2 is the dry fodder and wood placed within and V3 will be the lightning bolt that gets this fire rolling. The NDR cards that are beat competative are either lynch pins for decks like vivianne and lancelot or powerful enabler rune/chants or chants like life severing, look of corruption, etc. Honestly the most interesting cards for me are the untouched new vahalla starter deck cards like pang tong and Atom. Shen just slots into any aggro plan and Anubis hits the field and makes a huge impact: kill a big dude, deny his recursion or if you opponent goes wide clear cut 2-3 resonators, at five/six it feels good to play her, but that is why I think about cramming in some form of ramp you have to look at her as a package as a 2x anubis and 2x burial rites in your sideboard sadly as you want see her when you need her.
The Shen Gongbao value engine, and anubis and her burial rites.