Draw rates are relatively low, further increasing the value and chase factor of these cards
This makes a 2/3 good whether you're on the offense or defense, which is the hallmark of a good Limited card
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It's not hard to get enough creatures with the right type in this format, and this is pretty bad at hating on the graveyard, so there's not much of a reason to run this unless your draft went really wrong
You can either buff up one of your creatures, or you can distribute counters across your token creatures, making them all just a bit more powerful
If you can limit the universe of things the opponent might conceivably do, and you can deal with all those things via a pre-prepped system where you are constantly bleeding out a little extra value