I don't think we're supposed to like Vaughn's character at all, so the fact that the actor is unlikable isn't really a problem and could possibly be a credit.
All the characters were put together at the end. If you look at the scenes from next week, they're all stuck in this together. I thought it was set up brilliantly.
Southern Rhode Island summers are either cool, a) breezy and basically bug free, or b) functionally indistinguishable from Louisiana swamp country. Always one of those two.
Get a decent deck and play the 6 ticket Standard dailies under the constructed/schedule events tab. That's your entry level grind, and the bread and butter of constructed value tournaments.
Killing anyone too powerful would rob the Many Faced God of too many deaths as a matter of consequence, since all rulers are either butchers or meat. :P