In addition to the ease of reusing and abusing this effect with reanimation cards like Sun Titan, being a creature makes Oreskos Explorer a great source of early damage or a deterrent for those trying to inflict early damage on you
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This card will seem even more potent in a deck that makes use of lands that give more than one mana
Hymn to Tourach also got restricted, but that didn't stop high school me from turn 1 dark ritual hypnotic spectre into turn 2 hymn to tourach in casual
(Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) : Proliferate
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