I just wanted to say that I've had a very serious day and you just let me wash off all of that. In other words: bravo and thanks for making my day a better one.Whatever Alf is.
This is the standard line-up for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. The only heritage missing from your list is Planetouched.Human
Dwarf
Elf
Gnome
Halfling
Orc
I have no real doubt that the PHB we actually get will contain multiple elves. I'd rather it didn't, but the designers' ongoing fetish for elf-love remains strong.The removal of ability score improvements plus the addition of background feats, obsoletes the subraces.
Still the elf does better with two saliently different races:
• elf (astral-ish, teleport, spell-per-day, proficiency swaps, any cantrip)
• elf (wood-ish, elven accuracy, darkvision, speed, any cantrip)
The astral-ish elf covers: astral, eladrin, aevendrow, lorendrow, shadar-kai, pale.
The wood-ish elf covers: wood, high, udadrow, grugach, 3e wild, sea elf (waterbreating cantrip).
Might be unwise, considering dragonborn are the 4th most popular race in the game as of 2019, after humans collectively, elves collectively, and half-elves. They might not be a priority for you, but they've become a staple race and wildly popular among modern fans. (And, just to be clear, this is not just me being a dragonborn fanatic. I'm legit as surprised as the next person that dragonborn are so popular now. Excluding them would genuinely upset a significant chunk of fans.)3; uncommon, not a priority
Dragonborn